“HELL’S ANGELS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 718, 18 July 1929, Page 15

“HELL’S ANGELS”

three million dollar film “Hell’s Angels/* which has broken all records in expenditure of time and money, is now approaching the £. 600.000 mark in production cost. Exceeding *ven the most ambitious plans of its creator, Howard H. Hughes, who is personally directing the picture, ’Hell’s Angels'* has now been in production more than two years. The director of filmdom’s most extravagant screen play is searching for a pilot who will execute a daring tail-spin with the giant Gotha, which Plays a prominent part in the overhead action of “Hell’s Angels.’* It is the last and most difficult stunt of a long series of thrilling manoeuvres in tho air which “Hell’s Angela" cameras have been recording for the past two years. The script calls for an “out-oC-contror* shot, with the big bomber falling helplessly through the clouds. It: will be necessary for the pilot to Put the ship into a tight tail-spin for a downward fall through space of 7.000 feet or more. Scores of experienced flyers and stunt-men. including several who have risked their lives in other daring “Hell’s Angels" manoeuvres, have refused to attempt this death-defying feat They declare it would be suicide to “spin" the huge bombing plane, ■which is a relic of the world war and one of the largest ships now flying in America. According to these airmen. it is a gamble that the big air vessel could be righted again once it was thrown into the nose-dive. Xo plane anywhere near the size of the big Gotha has ever been spun before. Mr. Hughes, himself a skilled pilot, is confident that he will find, somewhere in America, the right man for the job. He will consider only trained and experienced pilots, having already turned down a. number of volunteers whom he considered too inexperienced to perform the daring feat.

“A Dangerous Woman" is the title of the Paramount talking picture previously titled “The Woman w ho Needed Killing." The production, directed by Howland V. Lee, is a story of the African tropics. Baclanova plays the titto role, and chief in her support are ''live Brook, Neil Hamilton and Leslie ■Fenton.