ceiling zero

Ceiling Zero puts the camera on three men, two flanking one who is on the telephone.

At the top of his powers, between 1935 and 1945, the films that most surely bear his touch are perhaps Ceiling Zero, To Have and Have Not, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday and The Big Sleep.

He captured a moment as lively when James Cagney in Ceiling Zero jumped from cockpit to runway in a somersault.

Something of his alert oversight probably came from his experience as a flyer – the source, too, of a group spirit and discipline that figures in The Dawn Patrol, Ceiling Zero, Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force.

But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero in the late 19205.