It went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture at the first annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award ceremony in 1929, the only silent film to do so. Although the cast and crew had much spare time during the filming because of weather delays, shooting conditions were intense, and Wellman frequently conflicted with the military officers brought in to supervise the picture.Īcclaimed for its technical prowess and realism upon release, the film became the yardstick against which future aviation films were measured, mainly because of its realistic air-combat sequences.
Wellman extensively rehearsed the scenes for the Battle of Saint-Mihiel over ten days with some 3500 infantrymen on a battlefield made for the production on location. Hundreds of extras and some 300 pilots were involved in the filming, including pilots and planes of the United States Army Air Corps which were brought in for the filming and to provide assistance and supervision. The film was shot on location on a budget of $2 million (equivalent to $29.24 million in 2020) at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, between Septemand April 7, 1927. Wellman was hired as he was the only director in Hollywood at the time who had World War I combat pilot experience, although Richard Arlen and John Monk Saunders had also served in the war as military aviators. Lighton from a story by John Monk Saunders to accommodate Bow, Paramount's biggest star at the time. The film, a romantic action-war picture, was rewritten by scriptwriters Hope Loring and Louis D. Gary Cooper appears in a small role which helped launch his career in Hollywood. It won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Wellman, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen. Wings is a 19 American silent war film set during World War I, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. US$ 2 million ($28,850,173 adjusted for inflation)
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