Lloyd Hughes and Norman Kerry are barnstormers for Berton Churchill's carnival. Every show, they go up in the air to do battle with live ammunition. There's no real money in it, so when they hit Hughes' home town, they stay at his folks' place and discuss how to make more money so one of them can marry one of the show's pretty girls, Shirley Grey. But Miss Grey begins a romance with Hughes' brother, Matty Kemp. Kemp is a pilot too, and has just gotten a job carrying the payroll for a mine. Kerry suggests that the three of them can split the money and fly away with Miss Grey.
It's an okay little drama, with the aerial sequences being the main selling point for the audience. None of the principals would prosper in the talkies, stuck in B pictures and uncredited bits in the majors. Kerry, in particular, was a sad case. Four years earlier he had been co-staring in major productions at MGM. Sound had revealed a voice at odds with his star persona, and here he's reduced to the fifth wheel and villain in the plot. He would disappear from the screen for nine years, with one minor role ten years later. He died in 1956, aged 61.
It's an okay little drama, with the aerial sequences being the main selling point for the audience. None of the principals would prosper in the talkies, stuck in B pictures and uncredited bits in the majors. Kerry, in particular, was a sad case. Four years earlier he had been co-staring in major productions at MGM. Sound had revealed a voice at odds with his star persona, and here he's reduced to the fifth wheel and villain in the plot. He would disappear from the screen for nine years, with one minor role ten years later. He died in 1956, aged 61.