I've seen this picture with different actors, so I know he's not dead, but I don't know how Barthelmess takes the discovery and I was looking forward to finding out.
Returning to this, because I rewatched it last night: Barthelmess's reaction is one of the single finest things I've seen from him (and I've generally been impressed by him as an actor).
Entire passages of dialogue are identical or differ by some rearrangement and vocabulary.
You probably know this already, but much of the aerial footage (and footage of enemy troops etc.) is lifted directly from the 1930 version; they obviously re-shot anything where the lead actors' faces needed to be visible, but re-used much of the rest. I find it fascinating that the technology's changed so hugely and visibly between the two films in terms of the ability to move the camera around while shooting sound scenes (and let the actors move around within scenes), while the aviation stunts are still cutting edge.
I don't know if you've had a chance to watch the rest of the 1930 version yet, but (having watched the 1938 version today*), there are two scenes in the second half which (while remaining broadly the same in outline) are written and played in significantly different ways.
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Returning to this, because I rewatched it last night: Barthelmess's reaction is one of the single finest things I've seen from him (and I've generally been impressed by him as an actor).
Entire passages of dialogue are identical or differ by some rearrangement and vocabulary.
You probably know this already, but much of the aerial footage (and footage of enemy troops etc.) is lifted directly from the 1930 version; they obviously re-shot anything where the lead actors' faces needed to be visible, but re-used much of the rest. I find it fascinating that the technology's changed so hugely and visibly between the two films in terms of the ability to move the camera around while shooting sound scenes (and let the actors move around within scenes), while the aviation stunts are still cutting edge.
I don't know if you've had a chance to watch the rest of the 1930 version yet, but (having watched the 1938 version today*), there are two scenes in the second half which (while remaining broadly the same in outline) are written and played in significantly different ways.
Here is a random promo shot of the 1930 leads looking delightfully out of character (i.e. relaxed and happy): https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hrnfOypIiIA/U3X_P6zWBaI/AAAAAAAATFc/fV1OybNlJLU/s1600/aaawatch10.jpg
{*I figured I was massively earwormed by "hurrah for the next man who dies" anyway, so I might as well go whole hog.}