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Wings Reviews
We are so lucky that a film like Wings gets to stand as the first Best Picture winner. Wellman's ambition is on full display as he makes a thrilling and haunting look at war and combat.
...a watchable yet palpably padded-out war picture...
You will get a real feeling of flying when you see Wings... Because of this and because it has the best photography I have ever seen in an American motion picture, Wings ranks as a superior movie.
Full of innovative flying scenes, dogfights, strung-out love triangles, and set against the backdrop of World War I, Wings still holds up well nearly a century later.
In my opinion, it’s not possible to create a perfect film, but Wings, in all of its cinematic glory, comes incredibly close.
A great deal of sentimental and weepy material is thrust into the tale here and there, along with long stretches of what may be termed for want of a better designation, "just war."
Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen share honors as stars, with Clara Row as the feminine lead. While the picture is rather long, it holds the interest.
Wings is unquestionably the dazzle and pyrotechnics of the screen fulfilled in a new sphere, and teems with twentieth century timeliness.
The picture is almost too real. It brings war so terribly near and makes so fearsomely true the awfulness of combat in the air, even while it thrills and draws homage for those whose skill and courage accomplish such marvelous feats.
Embodying all the wonder of the mechanical age in vivid spectacle, Wings comes as one of the definitely great pictures which are now being made more frequently.
Since the proof of a picture lies in the selling, the outstanding fact about Wings, Paramount's latest bid for roadshow fame, is that it is worth two dollars of any man's money for the sake of the thrills it provides.
It is brilliant, poignant, and honest work, close copy of the tragic, flaming tapestry woven in the skies "over there."
When all is said and done, however, we must toast again the countless daring aviators who "stunted" their ways all over the skies of Bexar County, Texas, to provide the proper scenic and thrilling background for the picture.
By all means see Wings.
It is spectacular in its appeal and the spectator should forget all about its weakly-built story and accept it as a frame for the projection of the airplane episodes.
The air sequences which carry the big wallops are without parallel. They are as thrilling as they are amazing. Any audience will get a tremendous kick out of them. It is unfortunate that the dramatic story was not stronger.
Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen, who share joint honors for their remarkable acting and their more remarkable flying, ascend to the place of genuine heroes from the mere rank of the actor.
The thrilling adventures in the air that are shown... must be seen. They are beyond anything else of their kind, and are a wonderful achievement in photoplay construction.
A beautifully made film from the earliest days of cinema that is important for both its historical and artistic value.
Although the airplane skirmishes are the focus, the plot itself is oftentimes suspended just to protract the action.