Sky Bride (1932) DVD-R

Starring Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Robert Coogan, Virginia Bruce, Tom Douglas, Randolph
Scott
Directed by Stephen Roberts

Print: black/white
Runtime: 78 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Richard Arlen more or less revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the Paramount
programmer Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed Condon, the star attraction of a barnstorming
troupe of stunt flyers. When his best friend Eddie (Tom Douglas) is killed during a staged
"dogfight," Speed quits the troupe and takes a job as an airport mechanic. By chance, he
boards a plane already occupied by Eddie's mother (Louise Closser Hale), who is as yet
unaware of her boy's death. Now feeling even more responsible for Eddie's demise, Speed
breaks his promise to himself and takes to the air again when Eddie's parachutist kid
brother Willie (Robert Coogan) gets stuck in the landing gear of a plane in flight. As was
customary in the Paramount product of this period, Jack Oakie supplies the good-natured
comedy relief.