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The Lost Squadron

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The Lost Squadron	comment	The Lost Squadron is a 1930 film directed by George Archainbaud.The story opens in literally the last five minutes of World War I, November 11, 1918. Captain "Gibby" Gibson (Richard Dix), Lt. Woody Curwood, and a third character only ever called "Red" (Joel McCrea), are American fighter pilots. The war ends, and the three pilots along with their faithful mechanic Fritz all come home to a grateful nation which throws its arms wide in welcome.Unfortunately America turns out to be not that welcoming or grateful to its returning vets. Woody comes home to discover that he is broke, his business partner having bankrupted him. Red gives up his civilian job when he finds out that his return means his boss will fire the other employee. And Gibby comes back to his girlfriend Follette (Mary Astor), an actress, only to find out that she has been sleeping with producers to get parts. The four men, left adrift, resolve to stick together.Something like ten years pass, and Gibby, Red, and Fritz get separated from Woody during the Time Skip. The three friends, reduced to bums riding boxcars, wander to Hollywood and discover that Woody has a thriving career as a stunt pilot in the movies. Gibby and Red join Woody as stunt pilots on the set of Woody's latest movie, which just happens to star Follette. Follette is married to the director, Arthur von Hurst (Erich von Stroheim), an abusive monster who gets homicidally angry when he meets her old boyfriend.
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The Lost Squadron / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Lost Squadron / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Erich von Stroheim plays an abrasive, perfectionist Prima Donna Director—so, basically himself. There's even a comment about how "real producers won't have anything to do with him," which by this point was true of von Stroheim, who pissed off every producer he ever worked with. The only difference is that in this movie von Furst has enough money to make his own movies, while von Stroheim didn't, which is why he never directed again after he was fired from the set of Queen Kelly in 1929.
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The Lost Squadron / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Lost Squadron / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: As the men raise their glasses Gibby gives a toast "to the birds that were lost, to the lost squadron."
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The Lost Squadron / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Lost Squadron / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Von Hurst after Red shoots him. This instance is actually plot relevant. After the night watchman hears the gunshot and pokes his head in the door, the gang props Von Hurst up in a chair and Red pretends to talk to him.
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The Lost Squadron / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
The Lost Squadron / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: The Pre-Code Era, folks! Gibby jumps in a plane and goes up to tell Woody that Woody must land because the control wires to his plane are damaged. Gibby flies up beside Woody, but the planes don't have radios so Gibby can only gesture. Gibby frantically points to the ground and to the tail of Woody's plane, but Woody doesn't get it. Instead, he smiles broadly and flips Gibby the bird.
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The Lost Squadron / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Lost Squadron / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Air combat is shown going on to the very last minute of the war. Gibby seems entirely untroubled about killing a German tail gunner maybe two minutes before the war ends.
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The Lost Squadron / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Lost Squadron / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: As soon as everyone's watches show 11:00 am on November 11, 1918, the German and American pilots salute each other and fly back to base.
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The Lost Squadron / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Lost Squadron / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Of returning doughboys marching through New York, and returning planes flying overhead.
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The Lost Squadron / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
The Lost Squadron / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: A series of newspaper headlines demonstrates the plight of returning Great War vets, with news of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid bonuses.
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The Lost Squadron / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
The Lost Squadron / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: Von Hurst does this after Red shoots him. He finally hits the floor, tries briefly to get up, and then dies.
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The Lost Squadron / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Lost Squadron / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Woody says quite casually that he's heard that von Hurst beats Follette. Sure enough, von Hurst later grabs Follette's hand so hard that she cringes in pain.
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The Lost Squadron / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Lost Squadron / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The cops have arrived and the good guys know that they're going to get nabbed for Von Hurst's murder in a matter of minutes. So Gibby puts the corpse in a plane, takes flight, and then crashes on purpose, killing himself but also covering up the murder of von Hurst.
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The Lost Squadron / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Lost Squadron / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: The trio of pilots agrees that stunt flying in von Hurst's rickety old planes is not a good way to make a living. Gibby says "From now on we'll stick together, but we'll stay on the ground." Cut to the three of them in their planes, up in the air.
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The Lost Squadron / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Lost Squadron / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Woody is being interviewed live on the radio, outside a film premiere, when he sees his buddies in the audience. He says "Well I'm a son of—", and at that moment the radio interviewer slaps a hand over his mouth.
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The Lost Squadron / int_7a667c8d	type	A Threesome Is Hot
The Lost Squadron / int_7a667c8d	comment	A Threesome Is Hot: Hinted at when Woody is shown taking two hot women to the movie premiere.
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The Lost Squadron / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Lost Squadron / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Woody has developed a serious drinking problem. He's drunk on the film set, and he even flies drunk. When Woody shows up drunk when he's supposed to fly, Gibby has to do the stunt for him.
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The Lost Squadron / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Lost Squadron / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Red is only ever called Red. And Woody's little sister, who pesters him about his drinking, is called "Pest".
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The Lost Squadron / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
The Lost Squadron / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The opening scenes are set in November 1918 and the time not long after, before the movie skips forward a decade or so to the main story.
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The Lost Squadron / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
The Lost Squadron / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: Von Hurst sabotages Gibby's plane, by pouring acid on the control wires, so that they'll break, but only after the aircraft has taken flight. However, Woody winds up doing the stunt instead, so it's Woody that dies.
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The Lost Squadron / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
The Lost Squadron / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: Pretty strongly implied when Follette tells Gibby that she's starring in a new play, and then confesses to cheating on him, saying she was "ambitious and weak, not a very happy combination."
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The Lost Squadron / int_d043100b	type	Nose Art
The Lost Squadron / int_d043100b	comment	Nose Art: Gibby's plane has a skeleton wielding a scythe painted on both sides. When the gang gets jobs as stunt pilots, they recreate the skeleton on their planes.
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The Lost Squadron / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
The Lost Squadron / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Gibby shows up at Follette's apartment and finds her in the company of another man.
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