Wings in the Dark

Director: James Flood

Overview

MGM loaned Myrna Loy to Paramount to co-star with Cary Grant in the roller coaster-paced romantic drama Wings in the Dark. Loy plays daredevil aviatrix Sheila Mason, who marries Ken Gordon (Grant), a flyer with serious aspirations to set groundbreaking world records. When Ken is accidentally blinded just before he jets off for Paris, Sheila prompts him to continue working at any cost. He decides to become a writer, dictating his work and mailing it off to several magazines; all he receives for his trouble is a pile of rejection slips, but Sheila doesn't let him know that. In the mean time, he works out a fantastic invention -- a plane designed for "blind flying," which enables the pilot to command the craft without the use of his eyes. His plane is repossessed for lack of payment, cluing him into what Sheila has been up to with his articles. Infuriated, he severs all communication with her. In an effort to drive Grant out of her mind, Sheila then undertakes a Moscow-to-Manhattan flight and thus attempts to set a new world record of her own. But on the last leg of her journey -- over Boston -- she becomes surrounded by thick blankets of heavy fog, and cannot locate the airport. At the last moment, Ken steals his own plane from Roosevelt Field, takes it up, and uses it to guide Sheila back to the ground, where he declares his undying love and devotion to her.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/08/2014
UPC:	0025192235832
Original Release:	1935
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Language:	English
Time:	1:16:00
Sales rank:	43,746

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cary Grant	Ken Gordon
Myrna Loy	Sheila Mason
Roscoe Karns	Nick Williams
Dean Jagger	Tops Harmon
Hobart Cavanaugh	Mac
Bert Hanlon	Yipp Morgan
James Burtis	Joy Burns,Joy Burns
Russell Hopton	Jake Brashear
Samuel S. Hinds	Kennel Club Secretary
Arnold Korff	The Doctor
Matt McHugh	Sheila's 1st Mechanic
Graham McNamee	Radio Announcer
Alfred Delcambre	Cameraman
Lee Phelps	Ken's Mechanic
Henry Roquemore	Air Show Chief Kelly
Sam Flint	George Rockwell
Stanley Andrews	Jack
Perry Ivins	Radioman
Virgil Simons	Boy at Coney Island
Esther Michelson	Boy's Mother
Ottola Nesmith	Housekeeper
A.S. Byron	Guard
Julian Madison	Jerome
Rita Owin	Nurse
Mabel Forrest	Secretary
George Reed	Waring,Waring
Charles Morris	Wallace
George MacQuarrie	Banker Crawford
Douglas Carter	Reporters at Last Flight
Peter Hancock	Actor
Charles Hines	Reporters in Ken's Hangar
Gene Morgan	Reporter
Antrim Short	Radio Announcers at Field
Phil Tead	Actor
Duke York	Actor

Technical Credits

Jack Kirkland

Frank Partos

Dale Van Every

Arthur Hornblow Jr.	Producer
Dewey Wrigley	Special Effects
Jack Kirkland	Screenwriter
Frank Partos	Screenwriter
Dale Van Every	Screenwriter