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Auction History Result 2g313 FLIGHT 8x10 still '29 Jack Holt, pretty Lila Lee & others watch plane take off, Frank Capra! Date Sold 7/5/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Flight, the 1929 Frank Capra (billed as "Frank R. Capra") United States Marine Corps military airplane aviation romantic love triangle adventure thriller ("The supreme all-talking drama of the air"; "made with the full co-operation of the United States Marine Corps"; a virtual mini-epic, with a college football star who blows the big game by running the wrong way and scoring a touchdown for the other team!; he joins the Marine Flying Corps, where, as luck would have it, his main rival is someone who witnessed the football game, and constantly taunts him about it; he also has a kindly flight instructor who takes a liking to him, but the young man crashes a plane and his hands are burned, so he can't fly, but the instructor takes him along to the war in Nicaragua as a mechanic; as luck would have it, both he and the flight instructor fall in love with the same beautiful woman, but the instructor doesn't know it, and feels betrayed when he learns the younger man has "stolen" his girl; there is a climactic air rescue, where the young man must fly a plane even though he is not qualified, and at the end of the movie, he has become a flight instructor himself, and he has won the girl!) starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee, Alan Roscoe, Walter Brennan, and Eddy Chandler. Note that the football incident that starts the movie was based on the real life exploit of Roy Riegels, later branded "Wrong Way Riegels", and Capra used actual footage of his wrong run in the movie. In addition, Capra had the cooperation of the Marine Corps, and they let him film actual Marine Corps planes for the footage in the movie. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that items from this early Frank Capra movie are BEYOND rare! In all our years of auctioning, we have never seen or even heard of any first release movie paper item from this movie! Condition: very good. There is a tiny thin strip of paper loss in the right of the bottom border and a 1/2" tear near the middle of the right border. Otherwise, the still is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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