The Dawn Patrol

10/9/2025

Richard Barthelemess is the cocky airman “Dick” in this pioneering aviation drama set during the Great War. Using mono and biplanes that were made of little more than balso wood and glue, he is part of the Royal Flying Corps that is trying to combat the nasty Bosch for control of the skies. He’s always being critical of his boss “Brand” (Neil Hamilton) without really understanding that with that command goes the responsibility, all too often, of sending men barely out of their teens to their deaths. He does come to realise that, though, when he is promoted and asked by his best friend “Douglas” (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) to cut some corners to get his brother - who is greener than any corn - into the sky. With pressures growing between these friends, a realisation that their equipment is bare