“Air Hawks.”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 337, 19 January 1937, Page 8

“Air Hawks.”

Dealing with a death-ray which can cause destruction from almost any distance, “Air Hawks,” a Columbia -picture featuring Ralph Bellamy, Wiley Post, Tala Birell, Douglass Dumbrllle, and Billie Seward, comes to the King’s Theatre to-day and tomorrow. The story concerns two rival airlines, one headed by Ralph Bellamy, competing for lucrative air-mail contracts. Bellamy’s rival employs a mad scientist who has perfected an infamous machine which can project the electric beam into the skies to bring down, flaming, the ’planes cf Bellamy’s company. The source of the subsequent disasters is unknown to Bellamy, but when the courage of the girl he loves and his own reckless daring merge to battle the hidden enemy, the executioner of the skies goes down before the onslaught in a novel climax. Tala Birell is seen as the girl who helps Ralph Bellamy avenge the death of his flying buddies. Wiley Post, famous round-the-world flier, is seen in person in “Air Hawks” as himself. His recent attempt at a new American trans-continental speed record is featured in the film, where special scenes were needed for a stratosphere flight. Post portrays oug of the pilots in Bellamy’s air-line.