Parachute Jumper

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At Mason City THEATERS". Globe-Gazette. Mason City Globe-Gazette. January 25, 1933. p.8 . Retrieved April 13, 2016– via Newspapers.com. Clips of Parachute Jumper are featured in the prologue of the first film version of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) as an example of the supposedly poor quality of the film work of Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) as an adult. [4]

Hypocritical Humor: A random gag in the last scene has Bill opening doors to various offices in an office building as he hunts for Alabama. He throws open one door to the "Society for the Enforcement of Prohibition", only to find a man pouring a drink from a flask. Shaking the Rump: After the opening shot of biplanes in combat, the first shot is a rather surprising close-up of a woman shaking her bottom at the camera, said bottom filling the entire scene. Bill and Toodles are in a Nicaraguan cantina enjoying the company of local ladies.

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Skydiving is one of today’s most exciting sports. Dynamic and colourful, it offers mastery of the air and the freedom to make the skies your own! UK Only. Despatched by Royal Mail first class post on the same day. Excludes Weekends & Bank Holidays. Noted movie pilot Paul Mantz was in charge of the aerial photography, undertaking a number of stunts that included two aircraft flying in close formation. Production notes [ edit ] Hall, Mourdant. "Parachute Jumper (1933); Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Frank McHugh teamed in a story of adventures in air and on earth." The New York Times, January 26, 1933. Book Ends: The film ends with Toodles rejoining the Marines and Bill, after getting Alabama to agree to marry him, doing the same.

Contrived Coincidence: Bill gets a job as a bodyguard for Weber, a bootlegger and, as is later revealed, a drug-runner. New York is a large city, but of all the places where Alabama could finally get work, she gets hired by Weber as a secretary. Frank Hagney as Marine officer in Nicaragua who tells Bill and Toodles, "this binge of yours has cost the government a small fortune — consider yourselves under arrest"

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a b Carr, Jay. "Articles: Parachute Jumper (1933)." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: August 15, 2013.

When your instructor deploys the chute at around 5000ft, expect a jerk as the falling stops and you go upwards for a second or two. It's only then your brain really registers the sensation that you are descending. In early October 1932—several months before the film's release—the entertainment trade paper The Film Daily reported that Warner Bros. had changed the name of the production from simply Parachute to Parachute Jumper. [3]

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Tandem jumps are our best-selling type of skydive. In essence, the professional skydiver is the one who does all the work and you just hang in there and enjoy the ride! Stanley Blystone as cop who tells Alabama and Toodles to "get a move on or you'll be coolin' your heels in a can"