Wings

About Wings

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond.

Wings is a 1927 romance war film directed by William A. Wellman. Its themes are world war i, 1910s, battlefield, and US military.

Clara Bow appears as Mary Preston, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Jack Powell, Richard Arlen as David Armstrong, and Jobyna Ralston as Sylvia Lewis. It runs 144 minutes and was released in August 1927.

The screenplay is by Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton.

Jules and Jim, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Hell's Angels make useful companions to Wings, all filed under black and white and friendship. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 347 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.