One of my rules about movies is beware any film that has a dog top billed. Doubly so if the film is from the early sound period. I won't go into the rule about top billed dogs with flight goggles in early sound films.
Flash is the top billed canine in this dated piece of fluff from the early 1930's and he is the best buddy to a flier trying to go nonstop from California to Hawaii. After a storm the plane bursts into flame and Flash is given the parachute. Both dog an pilot end up on an island lorded over by evil Noah Beery. Beery is is the typical evil white man exploiting the native and being a general slime. Misha Auer is the medicine man who nominally keeps the seething natives in check. There's a missionary on the island with his daughter with whom the pilot falls in love... and you can pretty much guess the rest.
Very dated mix of sound and silent stock footage with added effects, this is a mess of a movie. Its not horrible, but very clichéd ( and slightly racist) to the point where I was laughing at the film instead of with it. After about 20 minutes of this nonsense I started to fast forward a little bit because while I was interested in seeing what happened it was simply too slow for my mood.
Not bad but really not worth the effort.
