Plot Summary:Level headed Mike Miller runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking their lives to get the mail through-regardless of the weather. Following the death of one ...
“John Ford ponders the problem of heroism vs responsibility in this 1932 flying film...Ford...is able to give the conflict between reckless Pat O'Brien and staid Ralph Bellamy the cast of his personality. No great masterpiece..but indispensible for students of Ford's work."