Young Eagles Reviews

While on leave in Paris during WW I, American pilot Rogers meets Arthur, another American in the city. After falling in love, Rogers returns to action and captures Lukas, a German flying ace known as "The Grey Eagle." Rogers brings his prisoner to American intelligence headquarters in Paris, but Rogers is drugged by none other than Arthur. Lukas escapes with the lady, and Rogers now believes Arthur to be a German spy. Later he discovers she is actually a counterspy on the American side. Though the story occasionally steps over the line of believability, it is told with a good sense of excitement. Wellman's direction does the material justice. Some good aerial camera work as well. The author of the stories on which the picture is based was an air ace during the war. He later attained greater fame when, after assuming control of his family textile firm, he wrote a series of risque magazine advertisements, including one showing an Indian girl departing from a hammock occupied by an exhausted Indian man, captioned "A Buck Well Spent on a Springmaid Sheet."