---
title: 'The Dawn Patrol (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Edmund Goulding'
released: '1938-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dawn-patrol-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030044/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Dawn Patrol (1938)

1938 · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same title. Both were based on the short story "The Flight Commander" by John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Edmund Goulding](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-goulding)
- **Screenplay:** [Seton I. Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/seton-i-miller)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner)
- **Producer:** [Jack Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-warner), [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis), [Robert Lord](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lord)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tony Gaudio](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-gaudio)
- **Editor:** [Ralph Dawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-dawson)

## Cast

- [David Niven](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-niven)
- [Sidney Bracey](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-bracey)
- [James Burke](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-burke)
- [Errol Flynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/errol-flynn)
- [Basil Rathbone](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-rathbone)
- [Barry Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-fitzgerald)
- [Melville Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/melville-cooper)
- [Carl Esmond](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-esmond)
- [Donald Crisp](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-crisp)
- [Morton Lowry](https://cinepixo.com/people/morton-lowry)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dawn-patrol-1938
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