The Blue Eagle

Jon Mirsalis on Piano. Rivals on the street, George O'Brien and William Russell are also rivals for the affections of Janet Gaynor. The feud continues aboard ship in the Navy, interrupted only by a submarine attack. Returning to the old neighborhood and a postwar world of crime, they call a truce to rout out a gang of dope smugglers-then resume the fight once again. "The John Ford trademark is visible in the flair for military codes, the passion for crowd scenes, the attention paid to supporting characters, the mixture of admiration and contempt for machismo, and a touch of ironic faith in the pacifying power of the Catholic Church."-Lorenzo Codelli, Pordenone '98Preserved from original prints held at the LC and the Narodni Filmovy Archiv in Prague.

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