The Dawn Patrol (1930)

I was not ready for this movie to come out great. The Air Circus is completely lost and Trent’s Last Case is impossible to find, so I don’t get the look at the fractured path Hawks took to getting sound to work cinematically like we can with Hitchcock’s early sound pictures. Instead we get a film as confident with sound as Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, but it’s a far different picture overall. The Dawn Patrol is a sober war drama about young men having to grow up way too fast or die...