Air Mail (1932)

BACKGROUND
 

Airmail was co-written by Navy pilot and aviation pioneer turned screenwriter Frank “Spig” Wead about whom Ford made a biographical film twenty-five years later entitled The Wings of Eagles. On the surface Airmail offers an educational look at what it took to run airmail through. The dangerous rocky mountain range but beneath that layer lies a lesson in the reconciliation of opposites—the key to human survival. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLOT SUMMARY

The commander of a remote airport used exclusively for air mail must contend with; deadly weather, a group of outcast pilots, conflicting personalities and a dangerous love triangle.