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The Errol Flynn version of Dawn Patrol was in fact itself a remake. It was filmed in 1938, eight years after the original Dawn Patrol starring Douglas Fairbanks Jnr had been made by Howard Hawks. Interestingly, the remake does actually use some of the footage from the earlier film version.
Howard Hughes made the similarly-themed Hells Angels in the same year as the original Dawn Patrol was filmed too. The production of Hells Angels features heavily in the fairly recent Leonardo DiCaprio portrayal of Hughes in the movie The Aviator. A fictionalised amalgamation of the production of all those 1930s WW1 movies also features in the Robert Redford movie, The Great Waldo Pepper.
All of these movies are worth a look if you like WW1 aircraft, since they all feature WW1 aircraft, some of them absolutely genuine ones which had been bought for the production. The most famous of these being the Tallmanz Pfalz DXII (originally 7511/18), which has probably been involved in more movies than any other WW1 aeroplane.
Al
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