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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HELL'S ANGELS On Blu-ray From Criterion

By Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 28, 2025 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

The 1930 WWI aviation spectacular HELL'S ANGELS, produced and directed by the legendary Howard Hughes, gets the special-edition Criterion treatment. Most people today know about HELL'S ANGELS from watching Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic THE AVIATOR. But Scorsese's film only scratched the sur... Read full article


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


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


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Facts about

Although it has been reported that Hughes re-shot all the silent material, that seems unlikely looking at the footage shot in the dirigible. The voices are out-of-sync and some of the action seems hurried, suggesting it was shot at a silent speed of 18 frames per second, rather than 24 fps sound speed and dubbed later.
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.
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