Major Brand's (Basil Rathbone) Royal Flying Corps squadron is fighting hard above the Western front but the losses are mounting, and the replacements are getting ever younger and less experienced. His top airmen Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Scott (David Niven) somehow manage to survive though the odds are getting tougher. The airmen face the dangers with a mixture of stiff upper lip stoicism, some tears and lots of booze...
A truly great war film with a top rank cast, showing the horrors, humanity and inhumanity of war. The film was a remake of a 1930 film and reused much of the aerial footage, though some of the aircraft used were Nieuports used in the actual war which adds to the realism.
