"HELL'S ANGELS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 85, 11 April 1931, Page 12

"HELL'S ANGELS."

AIR DRAMA'FOR REGENT.

Ranking among the mightiest of all film spectacles, "Hell's Angels," Howard ! Hughes' sensational drama of the Bptisn Air Force in the Great War, will open a season at the Regent Theatre next Friday. The film was given a private screening before a number of Auckland aviators this week, and was generally acknowledged to be the finest air picture I yet shown, in New Zealand. .The scenes that show the German Zeppelin, while on its mission to bombard London, nosing its way through moonlit clotids, are marvellous. The close-ups inside the cabin, of the motors, of the machinery releasing the bombs, of some of the crew jumping to their deaths so as to lighten the ship and enable it to escape from the pursuing British aeroplanes; the scenes of 'the British 'planes plunging against the Zeppelin, which bursts into flames and crashes to earth —all these imake one gasp for breath. \ In the second half of the picture two young aviators penetrate the German lines and bomb a huge munition dump at Sprague. They are surrounded on their way back by a dozen German 'planes, and a fleet of British machines speeds to the rescue. The aerial battle that follows, far above the billowing clouds, is perhaps the most amazing spectacle of all. Romance is introduced through a beautiful V.A.D. girl, who engages the attention of two young students in the flying corps. James Hall, Ben Lyon and 'Jean Harlowe. {a beautiful blonde) are the principal players.