“Border Flight” Packed With Dramatic Action

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 63, 16 March 1938, Page 11

“Border Flight” Packed With Dramatic Action

UNUSUAL AIR DRAMA HAS STACCATO BACKGROUND

Kosy: Now Screening.)

The staccato rattle of machine gun fire, the roar and whine of speeding ’planes “dog-fighting” high above the Pacific, and thrilling hand-to-hand battling of guardsmen and smugglers run through Paramount’s “Border Flight.”

The film tells a dramatic tale of high adventure and dangerous missions of the United States Coast Guard air

corps. Officers of the air corps aided in the filming. The crackup of two ’planes and the pancake landing of a third which has lost its landing gear add to thrills of the story.

Two members of the corps, John Howard and Grant Withers, become rivals for the attentions of the same girl, Frances Farmer. In the course of the story, one is discharged from the service and joins a band of fur smugglers with which it has been fighting. The dramatic finish comes in a pitched battle of the forces of the Coast Guard and the smugglers, closing in a hand-to-hand fight. Last breath-taking shot is of a power dive of a ’plane directly onto the smugglers’ ship, bringing the wreckage of both in an explosion. “Border Flight” sustains its pace as a top flight thriller and gives an insight into a little-known branch of government service as well.