Dirigible (film)

Dirigible
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Frank Capra
Written by	Frank Wead (story) Dorothy Howell Jo Swerling (continuity)
Produced by	Harry Cohn Frank Fouce
Starring	Jack Holt Ralph Graves Fay Wray Hobart Bosworth
Cinematography	Joseph Walker
Edited by	Maurice Wright
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	April 4, 1931 (1931-04-04)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$650,000

Dirigible is a 1931 American pre-Code 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 fixed-wing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air.

The female lead is played by Fay Wray. The action scenes feature the stars Jack Holt and Ralph Graves, who also played fliers two years earlier in Capra's 1929 airborne adventure Flight. This film had been intended to emulate the success of Wings (1927), another production with a similar plot. Dirigible was characterized as "marginally science fictional" by scifilm.org. (Capra later planned to make a fully science fictional movie but was never able to.)^[1]