Thursday, July 2, 2009

Tail Spin (1939)

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
My rating: 2 stars out of 4

Alice Faye is Trixie, female aviator. One of her flying buddies is Speed, and he likes to fly fast and try to set records. Hmmm...an odd coincidence of names with the famous Speed Racer duo? So we've got Trixie and Speed flying in fast-motion, just as often with rear projection than without, competing with mainly a bunch of other female aviators. Instead of portraying these women as pioneers in a male-dominated industry, they have cat fights in the locker room and use men to fix their engines.

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