The gang builds a glider.The gang builds a glider.The gang builds a glider.
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- TriviaSeventh of fifteen shorts in "The Boy Friends" 2-reel comedy series released from 1930 to 1932.
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The Glider Owner-Pilot: What's the big idea?
Alabam: Well, I was just sitting there, trying to look dreamy.
The Glider Owner-Pilot: Dreamy? Why, you look unconscious!
- ConnectionsFollowed by Call a Cop! (1931)
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Cheap, Unfunny and Just All Around Bad
Air-Tight (1931)
* (out of 4)
Absolutely horrendous entry in the "Boy Friends" series has the group at a launching field where Grady Sutton gets into a glider, which accidentally takes off and soon he's flying around while Mickey Daniels and David Sharpe try to figure out a way for him to get down. I don't think anyone would be shocked to learn that the Boy Friends series got third-rate screenplays that were obviously not good enough for Hal Roach's higher talent like Laurel and Hardy. The series was always up and down but I've never seen one as bad as this entry, which ranks as one of the worst shorts I've seen from this period. Not only is there not a single laugh to be found but the technical quality of the picture is downright poor and whoever saw the rushes of this thing should have canceled the production right there. The shocking this is that future Oscar-winner George Stevens directed this thing and you can't tell he was doing anything. I'm going to guess that a lot of the footage is either stock footage or clips from a silent picture. The majority of the "air work" is poorly shot and it's obvious Sutton isn't in the plane. The "humor" on the ground isn't any better as we get severals scenes of Daniels and Sharpe trying to teach him how to jump out of the glider.
* (out of 4)
Absolutely horrendous entry in the "Boy Friends" series has the group at a launching field where Grady Sutton gets into a glider, which accidentally takes off and soon he's flying around while Mickey Daniels and David Sharpe try to figure out a way for him to get down. I don't think anyone would be shocked to learn that the Boy Friends series got third-rate screenplays that were obviously not good enough for Hal Roach's higher talent like Laurel and Hardy. The series was always up and down but I've never seen one as bad as this entry, which ranks as one of the worst shorts I've seen from this period. Not only is there not a single laugh to be found but the technical quality of the picture is downright poor and whoever saw the rushes of this thing should have canceled the production right there. The shocking this is that future Oscar-winner George Stevens directed this thing and you can't tell he was doing anything. I'm going to guess that a lot of the footage is either stock footage or clips from a silent picture. The majority of the "air work" is poorly shot and it's obvious Sutton isn't in the plane. The "humor" on the ground isn't any better as we get severals scenes of Daniels and Sharpe trying to teach him how to jump out of the glider.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jan 24, 2011
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- Runtime17 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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