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Barry Eldon is the owner of an airline company that is competing with a rival company for a lucrative air-mail contract with the government. While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barry's line, the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray-machine that will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power and crash. Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldon's line before he, aided by Renee Dupont, can find out what is causing his airplanes to crash.
A mysterious ray that immobilizes all motors and engines threatens the security of the country.
If you like old movies, this one is pretty entertaining, it has an interesting plot, that is suspenseful enough to keep you watching. Ralph Bellamy is as good in this as in any of his other movies. Also pretty funny because of it's age, lot's of smoking which is always a gas these days! In full disclosure, my great aunt Grace was one of the writers, but I've given it 8 stars, and it is worth the watch.
&#39;Air Hawks&#39; is a rousing good adventure story, starring Ralph Bellamy in one of his rare outings as a two-fisted action hero. (Bellamy was more typically cast in romantic comedies, as the guy who lost the girl to a better man.) Here, he plays a former Army pilot who sets up his own low-budget air-courier service. Bellamy hopes to get a lucrative federal contract, flying bags of mail cross-country. A previous air service lost the contract because their &#39;planes kept mysteriously crashing.<br/><br/>Veteran movie villain Douglass Dumbrille is in this movie, cast as a &#39;respectable businessman&#39;, so it&#39;s obvious who&#39;s behind the air crashes ... and that&#39;s not a spoiler. The action cuts back and forth between Bellamy&#39;s good-guy flyboys and Dumbrille&#39;s secret hideout, so the audience know the reason for those &#39;plane crashes well ahead of Bellamy. Hoping to get the mail contract for himself, Dumbrille has engaged the services of an eccentric professor named Schulter ... who has invented an &#39;electrical ray&#39;: a gigantic unwieldy device that he points into the air, which conveniently bollixes any electrical motor that passes overhead. I would have thought that most 1930s aircraft were powered primarily by internal combustion, with electricity being only secondary. But Schulter&#39;s gizmo works a treat, and pretty soon the pretty aeroplanes are dropping like stones. Professor Schulter (a very brief role) is played by Edward Van Sloan, who famously played the ethically-responsible scientist in several monster movies, so it&#39;s very interesting to see him here as a scientist who uses his knowledge for evil purposes. The presence of Schulter&#39;s electrical ray makes &#39;Air Hawks&#39; technically a science-fiction movie, but the whole film has the feel of a Saturday-morning adventure serial, with the emphasis on thrills rather than gadgetry.<br/><br/>The most interesting name in this cast list is that of Wiley Post, who is now remembered only as the pilot in the fatal &#39;plane crash that killed Will Rogers. (Matters were not helped by the Broadway musical &#39;The Will Rogers Follies&#39;, which reduced Wiley Post&#39;s entire life to a cheap plot device.) It&#39;s unfortunate that Post is so poorly remembered. In the 1930s, most Americans knew of Post for his record-setting exploits as a pioneer of high-altitude flight. He invented a pressure suit designed to keep an aviator alive at high altitudes. Post was also the first pilot to fly around the Earth, and the first person to experience jet lag.<br/><br/>Many 1930s films (especially those made at Warner Bros) featured a useful cinematic device, in which brief clips of the principal actors are shown during the opening credits, with the actors&#39; names (and the names of their roles in the film) superimposed on these images. This very helpful practice enabled filmgoers to match an actor&#39;s name to a face. That device is used in the opening credits of &#39;Air Hawks&#39;, with Wiley Post prominently listed as playing himself. After that brief clip, however, we see no more of the great aviator until more than halfway through this film, when Wiley Post ambles onto the screen very briefly to offer a few words of encouragement to Bellamy&#39;s beleaguered pilot. It&#39;s clear that the filmmakers worship Post, and rightly so. Except for newsreel footage, &#39;Air Hawks&#39; is Wiley Post&#39;s only film appearance, so it&#39;s regrettable that his participation is so brief. (Maybe he had to catch a flight.) I also enjoyed a brief appearance by Elise Cavanna, the tall and gawky (yet attractive) comic actress who performed so memorably in a couple of WC Fields movies at this time.<br/><br/>&#39;Air Hawks&#39; is a delight from start to finish, one of those movies that nostalgia enthusiasts talk about when they say that Hollywood &quot;doesn&#39;t make &#39;em like that any more&quot;. I&#39;ll rate this movie 10 out of 10.

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