Hell's Angels Overview:

Hell's Angels (1930) was a War - Drama Film directed by Howard Hughes and James Whale and produced by Howard Hughes.

Academy Awards 1929/30 --- Ceremony Number 3 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Cinematography(Gaetano Gaudio), (Harry Perry)Nominated
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Screen Capture Theatre: "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes

By David on Jan 16, 2022 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Screen Capture Theatre we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ... Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid, a member of the upstanding Hell's Angels. ... Read full article


"Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes

By David on Aug 26, 2015 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ... Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid, a... Read full article


"Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes

By David on Aug 26, 2015 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This time around on Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ... Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid, a... Read full article


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Monte Rutledge: Listen, Roy, never love a woman. Just make love to her.


Helen: Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?


Helen: I wanna be free. I wanna be gay and have fun. Life's short. And I wanna live while I'm alive.


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Facts about

This film cost $3.8 million, so expensive that it made no profit on its first release.
Howard Hughes hired WWI aces to fly the planes but also flew one himself; he crashed shortly after his first takeoff and broke several bones.
More than 70 pilots were used in the film. Three of them died during shooting.
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