Watch Ace of Aces For Free

Perfect cast and a good story

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Potential SPOILER.OK, so it's not a great movie. For it's time, it was probably considered pretty damn good but some movies, and this is just my humble opinion, just don't hold up over time. Albert Fin....sorry, Richard Dix was a pretty OK actor, as one other reviewer put it, a bit hammy, but over all, for the 30s, not bad but I have to admit, his maniacal killer stuff was the stuff that modern film considers parody. His obsession with the kill (a guy who was very much a pacifist) was maybe a tad overdone. However, from a psychological standpoint, what a very interesting character study. I'd LOVE to see this movie remade with a more gradual change in the character instead of almost immediately, though you can see how getting MAD can change a person's outlook.I'm not sure if that was really a spoiler, but I'll click the box to be on the safe side.Mr. Finney...DAMMNIT, Mr. Dix plays crazy well, I'll give him that, campy, hammy, but well and as I said, almost funny. I fully enjoyed him. I find it sad that almost every war movie made up until the 1960s seemed to find a need for a love story. Blech! This one had one and maybe it was needed to help show his transformation, but, ah, whatever. I enjoyed it and would never tell anyone not to see it. 'Nuff said.

"Ace of Aces" was deliberately acted by Richard Dix while the role of Elizabeth Allen remains unclear. But she did attempt to convey the entire picture of a girlfriend during World War I who sees it as being a true requirement. How many total movies in the 1930s did that? Thus this is a suppressed movie. It's known that the British sent about 300 conscientious objectors to the firing squad during World War I. No one on the allied side in the movie, set of course in a flying squadron base, has any idea what World War I is about. You're not going to find from the movie whether the U.S. entering it helped anything. We know what the ultimate result was. So assuming the movie's value is the precise degree of disparity between Richard Dix and Elizabeth Allen, it is noteworthy that his character, Rocky Thorne, has the same last name as a major freeway exit adjacent to Fort Lewis, Washington. Which is the largest army base in the United States. Suppressed. Federal judge will grant the motion to extend.

Considering the era it was made this film was very well made. Of all the fluff that came out of Hollywood I'm sure this was a pleasant change of pace for moviegoers of the day and is still worth watching some 70 + years later.War and especially combat change a man and usually not for the better for a long time if not for life. This movie went into the dark corners of these human transformations. Great acting, writing, and directing was put into this effort.Richard Dix was well chosen for the lead of this film as the role called for a tough character in this lead role of fighter pilot ace. Although Mr. Dix is not as well known in film history as Gable or Bogart he was very popular back in the 30's and 40's and a leading man. His untimely death at age 56 shortened a great career. If you get the chance to see this movie, please seize the opportunity to view some real Hollywood history.

I never liked Richard Dix very much. He's just awful in the wonderful film, Cimarron, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Any other film I've seen in him seems to show him off as a hammy, middle-aged actor just going through the paces. But Ace of Aces was a slight surprise. This WW I story about a pacifist artist who joins up and become a bloodthirsty killer under the guise of being a flying "ace" seems like the kind of role he needed. In a way it's similar to the role of Yancy in Cimarron, but minus the "Wahoos" he lets out sporadically in that film. Plus in Cimarron Dix pales in comparison to the great performance turned in by Irene Dunne. In Ace of Aces, Dix is the star. No one else registers very strongly. Elizabeth Allan is the girl friend, Ralph Bellamy the commanding officer, Theodore Newton the best friend, Nella Walker the socialite, and the Stroud twins (Claude and Clarence) play fellow flyers. Not a great film by any means, but a solid story certainly helps. The aerial dogfights are good but not as good as in Hell's Angels. Check it out.