THE LAST FLIGHT (1931) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: William Dieterle
Richard Barthelmess, Helen Chandler, David Manners,
John Mack Brown, Elliott Nugent, Walter Byron
World War One flyboys, all of them damaged, go to Paris after the Armistice to drink and forget. They meet a swell girl named Nikki, and there's a lot more drinking, and a trip to Pere Lachaise Cemetery and to Portugal, and more drinking, and a bullfight. An unusual movie, one of the first to take a crack at the Lost Generation, like a screwball comedy by Hemingway, if you can imagine something like that. The script is by John Monk Saunders, who wrote "Wings" and was married to Fay Wray.
