Men with Wings
AMERICA'S GREATEST HEROES!
105 mins
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Anita Randalla Berkely
Peggy's Baby
Mary Brodel
Patricia Falconer at Age 17
Jack Chapin
Sentry
Sheila Darcy
Nurse
Jane Dewey
Nurse
Lillian Dickson
Woman
Norah Gale
Nurse
Grace Goodall
Matron
Sherry Hall
Field Official
Chuck Hamilton
Photographer
Paul Mantz
Pilot
Ralph McCullough
Reporter
Kitty McHugh
Nurse
Lucille Miller
Norma
Willy Morris
Clerk
Franklin Parker
Mail Truck Driver
Bob Perry
Waiter
Jerome Storm
Reporter
Dorothy Tennant
Mrs. Hill
Bobby Tracy
Reporter
Ethel West
Woman
Dorothy White
Nurse
Joe Whitehead
Cab Driver
Billy Cook
Young Scott Barnes
William LeBaron
Executive Producer
W. Franke Harling
Music
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
Gerard Carbonara
Music
A. E. Freudeman
Set Decoration
Robert Carson
Writer
Robert Odell
Art Direction
W. Howard Greene
Director of Photography
