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Winner of the very first Best Picture Oscar®, WINGS boasts pioneering aerial photography and stunt work that set the template for all flyboy films to come, up to and very much including STAR WARS. Rival aviators Jack Powell (Buddy Rogers) and David Armstrong (Richard Arlen) compete to be the best both in the sky and with the fairer sex. Featuring "It Girl" Clara Bow and a memorable cameo by then up-and-comer Gary Cooper, WINGS was directed by William "Wild Bill" Wellman, himself a World War I flying ace. DIR William A. Wellman; SCR Louis D. Lighton, Hope Loring, John Monk Saunders. U.S., 1927, b&w, 144 min, plus a 15-min intermission. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

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About Andrew Earle Simpson
Andrew Earle Simpson is an acclaimed composer of opera, silent film, orchestral, chamber, choral, dance and vocal music, based in Washington, DC. His musical works make multi-faceted, intimate connections with literature, visual art and film, reflecting his own interest in linking music with the wider world, an approach which he calls "humanistic music." One of America’s foremost silent film musicians, he has performed across the United States, Europe and South America. In addition to composing and performing, Simpson is a professor and head of the division of Theory and Composition at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Visit andrewesimpson.com for more information.