Men with Wings
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.
Release Date
July 16, 1938Runtime
105 minRating
NRGenres
DramaDirected by
William A. WellmanWritten by
Robert CarsonLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Fred MacMurray
Pat FalconerRay Milland
Scott BarnesLouise Campbell
Peggy RansonAndy Devine
Joe GibbsLynne Overman
Hank RinebowPorter Hall
Hiram F. JenkinsWalter Abel
Nick RansonKitty Kelly
Martha RansonVirginia Weidler
Young Peggy RansonDonald O'Connor
Young Pat FalconerJames Burke
J.A. NolanWillard Robertson
Col. HadleyDennis Morgan
GaltonEvelyn Keyes
NurseJoan Leslie
Young Patricia FalconerFrank Clarke
BurkeBilly Bletcher
Red Cross ManJames P. Burtis
ReporterDolores Casey
NurseGeorge Chandler
CodyEthel Clayton
WomanClaire Du Brey
EdithEddie Dunn
Field EmployeeEdward Earle
OfficerJean Fenwick
NurseJonathan Hale
LongChuck Hamilton
PhotographerDell Henderson
ChairmanRussell Hicks
Gen. MarlinAl Hill
Mail DriverJohn Hubbard
AttendantPaul Kruger
ReporterFrank Mills
MechanicJohn T. Murray
JonesDavid Newell
PhotographerGarry Owen
ReporterLee Phelps
PhotographerJuanita Quigley
Patricia Falconer at Age 6Ruth Rogers
GirlArt Rowlands
ReporterSyd Saylor
JimmyCharles Trowbridge
AlcottArchie Twitchell
NelsonCheryl Walker
NurseHarry Woods
BakerImages
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