Ceiling Zero Overview:

Ceiling Zero (1936) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner.

SYNOPSIS

Cagney plays a womanizing, devil-may-care pilot (again) who's forced to change his ways when his carelessness leads to a friend's untimely death. He makes amends with a dangerous mission. Remade in 1941 as International Squadron.

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Ceiling Zero: Old Time Radio version

By Judy on Feb 27, 2009 From Movie Classics

When reviewing the Howard Hawks movie Ceiling Zero for the early Howard Hawks blog-a-thon, I completely forgot that I had a copy of the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of this film, based on Frank Wead’s play. I’ve now remembered and listened to it – and found there were a few?interes... Read full article


Ceiling Zero (1935)

By Judy on Jan 23, 2009 From Movie Classics

I’m getting in under the wire with another posting for the Early Hawks Blog-a-thon at Ed Howard’s Only the Cinema site. After being enthralled by Hawks’ earliest sound film, The Dawn Patrol,? I was interested to see another 1930s flying?drama he directed – this time set in th... Read full article


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The play premiered at the Music Box Theatre on 10 April 1935 and ran for 104 performances. John Litel and Osgood Perkins played the parts portrayed by James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in the film.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onFebruary 27, 1939 with James Cagney reprising his film role.
Ceiling Zero (1935). Written by Frank Wead. Scenic Design by John Root. Directed by Antoinette Perry. Music Box Theatre: 10 Apr 1935- Jul 1935 (closing date unknown/104 performances). Cast: John Bohn, John Boruff, Geoffrey Bryant, Chester Clute (as "Baldy Wright"), John Drew Colt (as "Dick Peterson"), Joseph Downing, Walter Greaza (as "Al Stone"), Gladys Griswold, Alan Hale (as "Tay Lawson"), John F. Hamilton, Nedda Harrigan (as "Mary Lee"), Walter Hill, John Huntington, Hope Lawder, John Litel, Osgood Perkins (as "Jake Lee"), Margaret Perry (as "Tommy Thomas"), Philip Remar, Grandon Rhodes, G. Albert Smith, Ben Starkie, James Todd. Produced by Brock Pemberton. Note: Produced on film by Warner Brothers as a James Cagney v
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