Ceiling Zero

  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Romance
1/16/1936
95
NR

Crackling with drama that will win your cheers...if you can cheer when your heart's in your throat!

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.

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  • Geronimo1967

    A trio of wartime pilots are working on the US Mail routes, flying in all weathers trying to keep the post moving across a nation where the weather can change with little, or no, notice. Jake (Pat OBrien) leads the gang, Tex (Stuart Erwin) is the dependable type and the pencil-moustachioed Dizzy (James Cagney) is a bit of a loose cannon. Its this latter guy who is constantly causing problems for his boss, but things take a more tragic turn when he swaps shifts so he can do some flirting and, well suffice to say that soon Dizzy is feeling exactly that. The story here is really quite a compelling one, depicting just how risky their jobs were when they couldnt see the end of the planes nose, there were no lit landing strips (even at Newark!) a...

    August 7, 2025

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