Hell's Angels 1930

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: These air scenes, with the crashing of flaming planes, have never been matched on the screen. Read more

Malcolm Cowley, The New Republic: The machine guns are real machine guns, the bombs are real bombs, the drum of motors is the drum of genuine motors. But the actors themselves are false, puny, inadequate, the only real automatons in a world of vital steel. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: The end result is barely adequate. But it does feature a spectacularly elaborate World War I dogfight, and an equally fine Zeppelin sequence. And of course there's Harlow. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: It's no sappy, imbecilic tale. Read more