THE LOST SQUADRON

The Lost Squadron is a 1932 film produced by RKO Radio Pictures, which precedes the strict Hays Code formally imposed 2 years later. George Archainbaud directs the film and some of its stars include Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong and Erich von Stroheim, the latter of whom is a brilliant director himself... The Lost Squadron was made in a peculiar time in-between two world wars, in-between the silent and the talkie era, and lastly in-between pre-Code and Hays Code cinema. The film itself is bathed in irony as it explores the reality of post-World War I American and three veterans who have to navigate in Hollywood, whose power dynamics are not that far from those of the battlefield... The Lost Squadron (1932) is a pre-Code Hollywood film telling the story of three WWI pilots who become Hollywood stunt pilots. Learn everything about this film on our blog.