Dirigible is Frank Capra's 1931 adventure film about the competition between American naval fixed-wing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air.
Fay Wray stars, as do Jack Holt and Ralph Graves, who also played fliers in Capra's 1929 talkie, Flight. In fact this film had been intended to emulate the success of 1927's Wings, another movie with a very similar plot.
When famed explorer Louis Rondelle (Hobart Bosworth) requests the U.S. Navy...
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Dirigible is Frank Capra's 1931 adventure film about the competition between American naval fixed-wing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air.
Fay Wray stars, as do Jack Holt and Ralph Graves, who also played fliers in Capra's 1929 talkie, Flight. In fact this film had been intended to emulate the success of 1927's Wings, another movie with a very similar plot.
When famed explorer Louis Rondelle (Hobart Bosworth) requests the U.S. Navy's assistance in reaching the South Pole, officer Jack Bradon (Jack Holt) convinces Rear Admiral John S. Martin (Emmett Corrigan) to offer his dirigible, the USS Pensacola, for the attempt.
Jack requests best friend and glory seeker "Frisky" Pierce (Ralph Graves) to pilot the biplane carried on the airship. Frisky is eager to go, even though he has just completed another record-setting mission, a coast-to-coast flight, and has barely spent any time with his neglected wife Helen (Fay Wray). She sees Jack without her husband's knowledge and begs...
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