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63% Critic Match
It's in the Air
“THEY PUT A NEW HIGH IN HILARITY!”
6.3 / 10• 1935• 1h 20m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Cast & Crew
Jack Benny
Calvin Churchill
Lead
Ted Healy
'Clip' McGurk
Una Merkel
Alice Lane Churchill
Nat Pendleton
Henry Potke
Mary Carlisle
Grace Gridley
Grant Mitchell
W. R. Gridley
Harvey Stephens
Sidney Kendall
Charles Trowbridge
Alfred Drake
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Charles Reisner's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. It's in the Air is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
