The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Directors

Edmund Goulding

Cast

Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp

The story

In 1915, at the airfield in France of 59 Squadron Royal Flying Corps, Major Brand, the squadron leader and his adjutant Phipps anxiously await the return of the dawn patrol. Brand is near his breaking point. He has lost 16 pilots in the previous two weeks, nearly all of them young replacements with little training and no combat experience.

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