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Hell's Angels is a 1930 American pre-Code independent epic war film directed and produced by Howard Hughes and director of dialogue James Whale. Written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook and starring Ben Lyon , James Hall and Jean Harlow , it was released through United Artists .
Hughes spent $3.5 million to make the flying film Hell's Angels (1930). [6]: 52, 126 Hell's Angels received one Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. He produced another hit, Scarface (1932), a production delayed by censors' concern over its violence. [6]: 128 The Outlaw premiered in 1943, but was not released nationally until 1946.
So yes, you can find sources saying that Hell's Angels cost $4 million. However, this source is from 1939 and propagates a lie by Howard Hughes who misrepresented the cost of the film as $4 million. This is not true. The accounts for Hell's Angels were made public after Howard Hughes died and reveal the film in fact cost only $2.8 million.
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It is unclear which sound-era production superseded it as the most expensive film, although this is commonly attributed to Hell's Angels (1930), directed by Howard Hughes; the accounts for Hell's Angels show it cost $2.8 million, but Hughes publicised it as costing $4 million, selling it to the media as the most expensive film ever made. [214]
This B-17F, tail number 41–24577, was named Hell's Angels after the 1930 Howard Hughes movie about World War I fighter pilots. [21] [22] Some of the HAMC's early history is not clear, and accounts differ. The club's first official charter was reportedly drawn up in Fontana in 1950. [18]
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Decades ago, Nolan wrote the screenplay for a biopic about aviator and business tycoon Howard Hughes, but the project never took flight because Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” starring ...