Line #1 Trivia/HellsAngels


1	!!For the [[Film/HellsAngels film]]:
2	* AcclaimedFlop: While received well by critics, seen as ground-breaking for its time, and ended up selling a lot of tickets and going down in history as one of the very first sound blockbusters, the film's prolonged TroubledProduction meant that Hughes had ended up throwing so much money into the project that it failed to turn a profit and didn't even manage to break even.
3	* BeamMeUpScotty: This is the film that made ''SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable'' line famous...except the line is "Would you be shocked if I ''put'' on something more comfortable."
4	* CastTheExpert: Howard Hughes hired real World War I aces to fly the planes in the climactic dogfight.
5	* DuelingWorks: With ''Film/TheDawnPatrol''. In fact, Howard Hughes even filed a lawsuit that ''The Dawn Patrol'' had plagiarized his script in an attempt to delay its release.
6	* FakeBrit: Jean Harlow as Helen, though she doesn't even attempt the accent. The original Helen - Greta Nissen - was Norwegian.
7	* FatalMethodActing: Three pilots died in the shooting of the climactic air fight. Howard Hughes himself was severely injured when his plane crashed.
8	* TheOtherMarty: Greta Nissen was the original Helen. But when the film was converted to a talkie, her thick Norwegian accent made it impossible for her to play a British aristocrat. Creator/JeanHarlow was cast instead after Howard Hughes found her in a revue.
9	* ReferencedBy: WebVideo/KarolinaZebrowska mentions watching the film in her "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob6kDa3hFfA she was a skater girl aka I made a 17th century Dutch winter outfit]]" video.
10	* TroubledProduction: The Troubled Production of Hell's Angels was notorious at the time, and was dramatized 75 years later in ''Film/TheAviator''. Production began in 1927, but the film was first released in 1930. Due to Howard Hughes's overbearing production techniques, the original director walked off the picture. When sound was introduced with ''Film/TheJazzSinger'', Hughes decided to re-shoot the film as a talkie. The original actress for Helen had to be replaced for this reason. The climactic air battle was shot by staging an actual one, where Hughes even took the wing and flew one of the planes himself. He was seriously injured as a result. Overall about 137 stunt pilots were used in the sequence, which contributed to the already-bloated budget. Even more troubling at least two of these pilots died from the dangerous stunts they were asked to perform (it is suspected that the number of casualties in the performance of the stunts might have been higher, but that Hughes managed to hush this up). Due to production delays, Creator/JamesWhale, who was directing the talking scenes, was able to shoot an entire other film before ''Hell's Angels'' was even released.
11	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Thelma Todd had a supporting role that eventually got written out of the script.
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14	!!For the [[Manga/HellsAngels manga]]:
15	* AllStarCast: The original Japanese cast is ''loaded'' with some of the top voice actors in Japan including: Creator/MisatoFukuen, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro, Creator/FumihikoTachiki, Creator/MasakoNozawa, Creator/DaisukeKishio, [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Cho]], Creator/AkenoWatanabe, Creator/AmiKoshimizu, Creator/YuuAsakawa, Creator/NobuyukiHiyama, Creator/RinaSato, Creator/RomiPark and the late Creator/KeijiFujiwara.
16	* ColbertBump: Both the Manga and anime were somewhat obscure, but when the English dub was announced to include the likes of Creator/TeamFourStar The film got on a fair amount of fans radar.
17	** Similar to some other [[Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6 anime]], it's appearance (and a result of misleading titles) on the [=RetroCrush=] [=YouTube=] channel have also helped the anime gain attention.
18	* PostReleaseRetitle: The film was initially released in 2008 under its original title, but later retitled to just ''Hells'' on the 2012 Blu-ray release presumably due to copyright reasons.

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