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James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias ... see more see more... , Reginald Gardiner , Reginald Denny , Russell Arms , Paul Cavanagh , Clem Bevans , J.M. Kerrigan , John Farrell MacDonald , Pat O'Moore , Morton Lowry , Frederic Worlock , Roland Drew , Lucia Carroll , George Meeker , Ben Baker , Hardie Albright , Ray Walker , Charles Halton , Louis Jean Heydt , Willie Fung , Carl Harbord , Tod Andrews , Barry Bernard , Air Marshal W.A. Bishop , James Bush , Donald Dillaway , Pat Flaherty , John Gallaudet , Winifred Harris , John Hartley , Charles Irwin , O. Cathcart Jones , John Kellogg , Frank Lackteen , Miles Mander , Edward McNamara , Ray Montgomery , Gavin Muir , Charles Smith , Rafael Storm , Emmett Vogan , Billy Wayne , Bill Wilkerson , Larry Williams , Gig Young , James Stevens , Roy Walker , Tom Dugan , Ted Offenbecker , George Ovey , Herbert Gunn , George Offerman , J. Farrell MacDonald , Patrick O'Moore

James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a hotshot Canadian bush pilot who delights in stealing jobs... read more read more...-and women-away from his competitors. Brian is forced to shape up in a hurry when he's assigned to train other pilots for the Royal Canadian Air Force. At the ending of the training period, he is given his first real RCAF assignment: The seemingly unimportant task of shepherding American bomber planes across the Atlantic to England. With startling suddenness, Brian comes to realize the true importance of his job when he is forced into a deadly confrontation with a fleet of Nazi raider planes. Real-life Canadian WW1 flying ace Billy Bishop plays a small but pivotal role in Captains of the Clouds, while the leading-lady duties were handled by Warner Bros. stock actress Brenda Marshall (aka Mrs. William Holden). Cinematographer Sol Polito earned an Oscar nomination for his vivid color photography, though aerial photographers Elmer Dyer, Charles Marshall and Winston Hoch were certainly just as deserving. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 43 min.

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Release Date: January 1, 1942

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DVD Release Date: April 24, 2007

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  • thrusz
    July 4, 2007
    thrusz
    While suffering the burden of being a propaganda film, Captains of the Clouds actually has some substance when it's not showing the inspiring nature of "technical scenes."

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Steve Crum
October 25, 2004
Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

Cagney is a bush pilot facing a fleet of Nazi raiders in this morale-boosting aviation drama from Warner Brothers.

Bosley Crowther
March 25, 2006
Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
August 14, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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    • Brian MacLean: Take my advice, keep away from the airforce.
    • Brian MacLean: We're too old.
    • Brian MacLean: Nice little white wings. I thought they were very becoming.
    • Brian MacLean: So you're the new boss... following me around? [to Johnny in the R.A.F.]
    • Brian MacLean: Look at Tiny, he didn't like me, now he hates me.
    • Brian MacLean: What were you worried about? You worked up enough lather to shave all of Montreal.
    • Tiny Murphy: You're muscling in on Emily,.
    • Emily Foster: Just because I'll marry Johnny,what's that got to do with you and me?
    • Brian MacLean: answer: just about everything.
    • Brian MacLean: The sight of money always makes me feel good.
    • Johnny Dutton: I wish I had a hole in my head! [Brian was having a bone removed from his head]
    • Johnny Dutton: Tiny, take good care of the doc, we may need him! [refering to Emily and Johnny wedding]
    • Brian MacLean: In a few more weeks I'll be shaking hands with myself. [bored with living in the woods]
    • Brian MacLean: Nobody but a chump would talk to a girl when he's kissing her.
    • Brian MacLean: Either a fellow has it or he hasn't [kisses Emily]
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