‘HELL DIVERS'

Evening Star, Issue 21171, 3 August 1932, Page 7

‘HELL DIVERS'

SENSATIONAL AIR THRILLER One hundred and eighty naval air* planes, in perfect formation, diving and looping in sensational evolutions,form one of the many thrills in tha latest film drama of the air, ‘ Hell Divers,’ co-starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marie Prevost, Marjorie Rambeau, and others in a cast of unusual importance, and their acting is interspersed with some of the greatest thrills ever staged by the navy. The battle manoeuvres in Panama, with swarms of planes in the air, and sensational new Curtiss-Wright “ Hell Divers,” hurling themselves through space, two miles in less than SOsec, the landing of a giant Zeppelin on the airplane carrier Saratoga, and sensational landings and take-offs from the gigantic vessel, are among the things caught by camera and microphone. Through these runs a vivid drama of life with the flying fleet. Beery is seen as a grizzled veteran of the aviation service, and tha central romance, which is a love with something actually _ heroic in ittakes place between him and Miss Rambeau, who plays a Panama resortkeeper. Underlying the drama is the theme of supplanting the old ideas in the navy by the new ideas of modern progress. Gable exemplifies tha younger school of naval service. George Hill, noted for ‘ The Big House ’ and ‘ The Secret Six,’ directed the new production, most of which was actually’, filmed with the fleet at Panama, aboard the Saratoga and at North Island- ‘ Hell Divers ’ opens at the St, James Theatre on Friday.