Air Hostess (1949) Poster

(1949)

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Ok .... Jump ...
AAdaSC2 March 2019
We follow a new intake at an Air Hostess School where former librarian Gloria Henry (Ruth) is reluctantly enrolled by her sister Helen Mowery (Midge). She is joined by glamorous top dog Audrey Long (Lorraine) who I thought was Carole Landis at first. So did my wife. A definite resemblance. The girls learn how to operate radios, how to deal with customers and have to complete a parachute jump. Can they all make the grade? And maybe bag a boyfriend?

It's ok with one memorable parachute jump at the film's end. Audrey Long is good in her role and she manages to inject some drama into proceedings. When it's over, that's it. Nothing special.

Nowadays an air hostess doesn't need the glamour factor which used to be a pre-requisite for the industry. Check out some of those budget airline boys and girls! And what about the customers!!! They let anyone on planes these days. I think there needs to be an Airline Passenger School. In fact, that's just given me the premise for a film idea. It's set in a world where you have to have undertaken a course in order to learn how to behave as a customer. Only then are you allowed to fly. It could apply to any industry really. Definitely some comedy potential in that one.
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3/10
As exciting as a vintage educational short.
mark.waltz23 June 2019
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In fact, much of this Z-grade Columbia programmer seems to be in that mentality. It focuses on Gloria Henry, a young woman who has never ever been on a plane before who decides after several failed careers and living with a possessive aunt to go to stewardess school. She undergoes a breakdown when her sister, an experienced stewardess, is killed in a plane crash. It takes her instructors, fellow students (including the glamorous Audrey Long) and wisecracking pilot Ross Ford through lots of tough love to get her to continue on, but it will be a miracle if he audience is able to make it through this hour-long mess.

There is absolutely no sparkle in this film, surprising from one of the A studios to release something that would make Monogram shake its head in disgust. a few sequences show what could have been, especially a skydiving sequence where Henry loses the courage to jump and must face her fears in order to try it again. There is absolutely no humor, and many of their performances seem like the actors were reading off of very large cue cards. The difference between Columbia's A films and this is like comparing a 747 to a sardine can puddle jumper that can only fly short distances. This ran out of gas long before it even took flight.
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