The first film from Pine-Thomas is a fast paced unpretentious programmer that got the company off too a good start. It's only an hour, it moves along, the handling is fine, the story is derivative but dramatic. Richard Arlen is a test pilot who loves Jean Parker whose father wants to develop a design; Arlen's brother Don Castle also loves Parker.
Good basic conflict- brothers in love with the same woman. Parker is given something to do because she represents her father. This formula would be repeated many times by Pine-Thomas, including the tough guy profession setting, a random being killed (another pilot - while his wife sits and senses it... the best scene in the film).
I don't want to over praise this but the production values are good for a B - the actors decent (Castle smiles too much), the story holds. You can see why people liked it.
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