In this aerial spectacle, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps when World War I breaks out.
These air scenes, with the crashing of flaming planes, have never been matched on the screen.
– Mordaunt Hall,
New York Times,
28 Jan 2006
fresh:
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.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
It's no sappy, imbecilic tale.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
rotten:
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.