The Woman I Love

The Woman I Love movie poster.

Movie (1937)
aka : Escadrille and The Woman Between
Italian title : Adorazione

Starring:
Paul Muni (Lieutenant Claude Maury)
Miriam Hopkins (Madame Helene Maury)
George Ibukun (Lieutenant Jean Herbillion)
Colin Clive (Captain Thelis)

October 1917: Diary of a French squadron through the love story of two crew members loving the same woman.

Hanriot H.436

Reused footages from L'équipage (1935).

@ 15mn15.

Interplane struts braced by "incidence wires" running diagonally between them.

Director Anatole Litvak used mostly some Stearman C3 (and Curtiss Fledgling) aircraft modified by Paul Mantz to look like French Hanriot H.436 seen in his former work L'équipage (1935) of which Litvak reused some footage.

@ 15mn25. Note the straight trailing edge.

Note the N-struts which indicate that this is not a Hanriot.

But the decorator don't miss to apply correct data on the rudder to fool the viewer.

Fokker D.VII

All the Fokker D.VII seen are from footage already used in L'équipage (1935).

Caquot (or German copy : Ae 800) Observation Balloon

German dirigible Ae 800 Observation Balloon was a copy from a sized French Caquot observation balloon, much more efficient than the Parseval-Siegsfeld (Drachen) type balloon. Is this footage a film made by a war reporter ?
Or the shooting during test/training (in France or in the USA -as the Army used a thousand Caquot built locally-)?
Action is showing the attack of the balloon from above by Maury and Herbillion but Litvak -usually so skilled to use documentary footage- made here a mistake : an observation balloon will not be raised over the clouds (in order to keep the crew able to watch and report ground action and to direct the artilery fire). So this balloon is filmed from the ground.