Men with Wings
AMERICA'S GREATEST HEROES!
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Top Cast
Fred MacMurray
Pat Falconer
Ray Milland
Scott Barnes
Louise Campbell
Peggy Ranson
Andy Devine
Joe Gibbs
Lynne Overman
Hank Rinebow
Porter Hall
Hiram F. Jenkins
Walter Abel
Nick Ranson
Kitty Kelly
Martha Ranson
Virginia Weidler
Young Peggy Ranson
Donald O'Connor
Young Pat Falconer
James Burke
J.A. Nolan
Willard Robertson
Col. Hadley
Dennis Morgan
Galton
Evelyn Keyes
Nurse
Joan Leslie
Young Patricia Falconer
Frank Clarke
Burke
Anita Randalla Berkely
Peggy's Baby
Billy Bletcher
Red Cross Man
Mary Brodel
Patricia Falconer at Age 17
James P. Burtis
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