Released the same year as "Flesh",this is much more "fordian" than the movie starring Wallace Beery."Airmail contains the seeds of a lot of things which will be developed by the director afterward:manly friendship,sense of duty,struggle against the elements.And most of all,the fact that any man can redeem himself.There are such characters in the script:the first one is the pilot who,in the past,left his plane (with passengers)before the crash;the second is Duke (Pat O'Brien)who falls first under a femme fatale's spell,then leaves her and comes to his mate's rescue,at his own risk.
People often say that Ford's cinema is very optimistic.These ones have tunnel vision.There are a lot of deaths in this film:Joe 's and "Dizzy"'s ones are particularly dreadful.The men here are true heroes who give everything:Bellamy's character will face the storm,in spite of his lover's plea.
"Only angels have wings"(Hawks ,1939)would certainly be influenced by Ford whose interest in planes would not be dried up when he directed "The wings of eagles" in 1957.
NB:Would you believe it?Gloria Stewart was famous back in 1997 for playing old Rose Dewitt Bukater!!
People often say that Ford's cinema is very optimistic.These ones have tunnel vision.There are a lot of deaths in this film:Joe 's and "Dizzy"'s ones are particularly dreadful.The men here are true heroes who give everything:Bellamy's character will face the storm,in spite of his lover's plea.
"Only angels have wings"(Hawks ,1939)would certainly be influenced by Ford whose interest in planes would not be dried up when he directed "The wings of eagles" in 1957.
NB:Would you believe it?Gloria Stewart was famous back in 1997 for playing old Rose Dewitt Bukater!!