
Test Pilot(1938)
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.

Phil Regan
John L. 'Happy Jack' Cole / Bill Lyons

Evelyn Venable
Mary Gorham

Jed Prouty
Charles Gorham

William Newell
Charlie Davis

Jonathan Hale
J. Lansing Bennett

Harlan Briggs
U.S. Consul E.R. Brown

Stanley Andrews
Capt. Matzdorf

Claude King
Col. Wallis

Carleton Young
Al

Karl Hackett
Porozzi
Happy Go Lucky is a drama, action, adventure film released in 1936. Directed by Aubrey Scotto, it stars Phil Regan, Evelyn Venable, Jed Prouty. A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
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