Dirigible (film)

Dirigible is a 1931 American PreCode adventure film directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures and starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Fay Wray. The picture focuses on the competition between naval fixedwing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air.

When famed explorer Louis Rondelle Hobart Bosworth requests the U.S. Navys assistance in reaching the South Pole, officer Jack Bradon Jack Holt convinces Rear Admiral John S. Martin Emmett Corrigan to offer his dirigible, the USS Pensacola, for the attempt.Jack requests his best friend Frisky Pierce Ralph Graves to pilot the biplane that will be carried on the airship. Frisky, who is adventurous to the point of recklessness, is eager to go even though he has just completed a recordsetting coasttocoast flight and has barely spent any time with his wife Helen Fay Wray. Basking in the acclaim, he has even forgotten to read the sealed love letter she gave him to open when he arrived. ........

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