Captains of the Clouds

Academy Award winner James Cagney stars with Alan Hale and Dennis Morgan as a hot-shot Canadian pilot who enlists in the Royal Canadian Air Force, becoming one of the Captains of the Clouds.

World War II Pilot Brian MacLean (Cagney—Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mister Roberts) is just as adept at stealing flying jobs from his competition as he is at stealing their girlfriend's hearts. But when he hears a speech by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill about the looming Nazi threat, MacLean enlists in the Canadian Air Force...only to find his superior is a man from whom he stole both a job and a girl—while encountering action and adventure in aerial combat over the North Atlantic.

Academy Award nominations for "Best Cinematography" and "Best Art Direction."