Hell's Angels (1930) | |
| Director(s) | Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding (uncredited), James Whale (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | Howard Hughes (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, War |
| Top Topics | Aviation, Brothers, Pre-Code Cinema, World War I |
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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)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| 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 BlogThe 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 TrapezeThis 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 TrapezeThis 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 TrapezeThis 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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Quotes from
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
This film cost $3.8 million, so expensive that it made no profit on its first release.
All color prints of the movie were thought to be lost until a print was found in John Wayne's personal vault in 1989, ten years after the actor's death, by his son Michael Wayne. That explains why the younger Wayne's name appears on the credits of the restored version. It is possible that Wayne received the print from the film's producer/director, Howard Hughes. The actor starred in Jet Pilot for Hughes in 1949, but the film was not released until 1957 because Hughes continued to have the flying sequences re-shot, a situation not unlike this film.
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