Movies and TvShows featuring "airplane-mechanic" theme.
Only Angels Have Wings is a movie set in South America where a group of pilots face constant danger while transporting goods. The plot focuses on their camaraderie and the challenges they face. The story also involves romance, as one of the pilots falls in love with a showgirl. The pilots must navigate through treacherous situations, including airplane accidents and the threat of nitroglycerin explosions. The movie explores themes of redemption and loyalty.
During World War II, Batman battles the villainous Dr. Daka, a Japanese spy mastermind, who plans to use a death ray to destroy Gotham City.
Set during the Great Depression, the movie follows a group of daredevil pilots who perform acrobatic flight stunts and compete in air races. The story revolves around their personal relationships and the love triangle that develops between them.
Crime Wave is a crime drama film noir about an ex-convict who tries to lead an honest life but gets caught up in a series of dangerous situations involving armed robbery, false accusations, and a gang of robbers.
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Ceiling Zero (1936) is a thrilling movie set in 1930s Newark, New Jersey. It revolves around the lives of a group of airplane mechanics and pilots who face self-sacrifice, remorse, and grief after a tragic airplane crash. With themes of friendship, courage, and redemption, this movie explores the consequences of irresponsibility and selfishness. As the characters navigate through fear and deception, they strive for vindication and overcome their past mistakes. The plot is enhanced by the backdrop of aviation and the challenges of flying in adverse weather conditions. The movie captures the spirit of adventure and explores the complexities of human relationships.
The Lost Squadron follows a group of World War I fighter pilots who, after the war ends, struggle to find work in Hollywood. They eventually get the chance to work on a film set, but tragedy strikes when one of the pilots dies in an airplane crash. The group seeks revenge and embarks on a personal vendetta against the film's producer, who they believe is responsible for the crash.
The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
Inventor Al Simpkins develops a new airplane fuel, "Economo," which he claims gets a thousand miles to the pint.
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.