Parachute Jumper

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Stanley Blystone as cop who tells Alabama and Toodles to "get a move on or you'll be coolin' your heels in a can" A static line descent can be made after usually about 6 hours of ground training and involves the student jumper leaving the aircraft at 3500 feet. The main parachute is deployed using a device called a ‘static line’. This is a length of webbing attached to the aircraft at one end and the bag, in which the main parachute is kept, at the other, as the jumper falls away from the aircraft, the static line pulls the main parachute out and begins the deployment. Contrived Coincidence: Bill gets a job as a bodyguard for Weber, a bootlegger and, as is later revealed, a drug-runner. New York is a large city, but of all the places where Alabama could finally get work, she gets hired by Weber as a secretary.

Noted movie pilot Paul Mantz was in charge of the aerial photography, undertaking a number of stunts that included two aircraft flying in close formation. Production notes [ edit ] UK Only. Despatched by Royal Mail first class post on the same day. Excludes Weekends & Bank Holidays. Leon Waycoff as pilot at Roosevelt Field who tells Alabama, "he'll be all right, lady — if he's half as good as he says he is"

All Women Are Lustful: Mrs. Newberry, who hires Bill to be a chauffeur but is more interested in telling him to turn around while she can look at his torso, before she comes over and feels his bicep. She is giving Bill bedroom eyes non-stop in the scene where she invites him up to her room. He's clearly reluctant as he's in love with Alabama, but is apparently about to give in when Weber, Mrs. Newberry's lover, shows up. Axe Before Entering: A sequence towards the end has the cops chopping down the door to Weber's office. Weber and Bill make their way out via secret passage, but Weber shuts the door to the passage in the face of Steve the mook, and Steve is shot when the police finish chopping down the door and break in. All instructors are 'jump masters' who have undertaken rigorous training and made hundreds of parachute jumps around the country, if not the world. Tandem-style experiences allow complete novices to feel the thrills of free falling, without all that training.

Flipping the Bird: Toodles, who is trying to hitchhike (and flee the police) gives the bird to a passing car that doesn't stop. Why yes, this film was made in The Pre-Code Era. The other high point for me was the way disillusionment over the time period crept in to the script, but never kept the film from playing as light entertainment. The young couple steal a wrapped-up fish from an alley cat, and condiments from a diner. She resorts to flirting to get a job, likening what she said as no more meaningful than promises politicians make. Behind the closed door of the office of the Society for Enforcement of Prohibition, we find a guy drinking. Lastly, we get this exchange between Fairbanks and a prospective employer, morals going out the window out of necessity:

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Mordaunt Hall, reviewer for The New York Times, called it "a fast-moving tale of adventure in the air and on earth ..." [7] That review summed up the format of crime and adventure in the air that had been explored in a number of other films of the period. [8] In a later review, Leonard Maltin called it a "Fast-moving, enjoyable Warner Bros. programmer." [9] In popular culture [ edit ] Cut to New York, where Bill and Toodles are looking for work and not finding it, and going hungry. They meet Pat "Alabama" Brent ( Bette Davis), a secretary who is also out of work and also hungry (it's the Great Depression) and apparently considering hooking. Hall, Mourdant. "Parachute Jumper (1933); Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Frank McHugh teamed in a story of adventures in air and on earth." The New York Times, January 26, 1933.