Thursday, January 16, 2020

Mariners of the Sky (1936)

US Navy flyboy hi jinks. A rather contrived plot involving a baby and a bunch of Naval airmen. Tex (Addison Randall) learns that his wife back home is pregnant. Unfortunately by the time his aircraft carrier reaches port he finds out she died in childbirth. His sister-in-law Bernice (Claire Dodd) wants to take the baby away but Tex wants it bought up on the ship (for some unfathomable reason)...

Soon afterwards however Tex is critically injured in a car accident. He pledges his child over to his buddy Red (William Gargan). However Bernice and her lawyer are out to get the baby off him...

There then follows various mayhem which includes a gangster (Paul Fix) stealing the baby and Red stealing a plane. Well everything ends up happily in the end and they all go home for tea, and Red and Bernice get married. There isn't much depth to this film (which is ironic considering it involves the Navy) but it is a reasonable bit of fluff.