20,000 Men a Year (1939)
1h 24m
Running Time
October 26, 1939Release Date
20,000 Men a Year (1939)
1h 24m
Running Time
October 26, 1939Release Date
Plot.
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Cast & Crew.
Randolph Scott
Brad Reynolds
Preston Foster
Jim Howell
Margaret Lindsay
Ann Rogers
Robert Shaw
Tommy Howell
Mary Healy
Joan Marshall
George Ernest
Skip Rogers
Alfred E. Green
Director
Jane Darwell
Mrs. Allen
Frank Wead
Writer
Kane Richmond
Al Williams
Lou Breslow
Writer
Owen Francis
Writer
Maxie Rosenbloom
Walt Dorgan
Douglas Wood
Crandall
Ernest Palmer
Cinematographer
Fred Allen
Editor
Victor Sen Yung
Harold Chong
Paul Stanton
Gerald Grant
Tom Seidel
Wally Richards
Edward Gargan
Dunk
Harry Tyler
Joe Hungerford
Sidney Miller
Irving Glassman
George Chandler
Soda Jerker
Harrison Greene
Mr. Jones
Media.
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Wiki.
20,000 Men a Year (aka Air Story and Aviation Story) is a 1939 American action film directed by Alfred E. Green and written by Lou Breslow and Owen Francis. The film stars Randolph Scott, Preston Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Mary Healy, Robert Shaw, George Ernest, Jane Darwell, Kane Richmond and Maxie Rosenbloom. It was the fourth and last film produced by Cosmopolitan Pictures in its final year of operation.
Long before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government had encouraged Hollywood to produce films designed to encourage a buildup of the aviation industry as well as the military. The release of 20,000 Men a Year on October 27, 1939 by 20th Century Fox reflected the spirit of the times.