Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Captain Gibby Gibson and close friend spend last hours of World War I shooting down more of enemy, Fact2: Red decides not to take back old job, Fact3: Gibby Red and Fritz ride boxcar to look for Woody and find work in lean times, Fact4: Woody offers them well-paying jobs working for disreputable and tyrannical director Arthur von Furst, Fact5: wife has strong feelings for Gibby
Output (English): Captain Gibby Gibson Richard Dix and his close friend Red Joel McCrea spend the last hours of World War I in the air, shooting down more of the enemy. They then return to America with fellow pilot and comrade Woody Curwood Robert Armstrong and their mechanic Fritz Hugh Herbert to an uncertain future. Gibby finds his ambitious actress girlfriend Follette Marsh Mary Astor with a new boyfriend, one who can do more for her career. Goodnatured braggart Red decides not to take back his old job, as it would mean the firing of a married man with a new baby. Woody learns that he is penniless, swindled by his embezzling business partner. Years later Gibby, Red and Fritz ride a boxcar to Hollywood to look for Woody and find work in lean times. At a movie premiere, they spot a prosperous Woody, who is working as a stunt flier. He offers them wellpaying jobs working for disreputable and tyrannical director Arthur von Furst Erich von Stroheim. Gibby is reluctant, as Follette is now married to von Furst, but finally gives in. Woody introduces his two comradesinarms to his sister, the Pest Dorothy Jordan. She worries constantly about him, as von Furst utilizes dangerously wornout aircraft and Woody drinks a lot. Both Gibby and Red are attracted to her. Gibby misinterprets her concern for him when he barely survives a crash caused by parts of his aircraft falling off as love. When Red impulsively asks the Pest to marry him, she agrees, and Gibby accepts the situation with grace. Meanwhile, von Furst is aware that his wife still has strong feelings for Gibby. He sabotages the aircraft Gibby is to fly for a dangerous stunt, secretly applying acid to a control wire, not only out of jealousy, but also to add to the realism of his film with a real crash. However, unbeknownst to him, Woody decides to do the stunt in Gibbys place. Red sees von Furst tampering with the wires and alerts Gibby. Gibby takes off in another aircraft and catches up to Woody, but cannot make himself understood over the roar of their engines. The cable breaks, and Woody crashes and is killed. Red takes von Furst captive at gunpoint, determined to apply vigilante justice. Gibby and Fritz find out. Gibby starts to telephone the police to report a murder over Reds objections. While they are arguing, von Furst tries to escape, and is shot and killed by Red. When police detective Jettick Ralph Ince shows up in answer to Gibbys interrupted call, the men hide the body. Sensing something wrong, Jettick insists on searching for von Furst. When he leaves, Gibby loads the corpse into an aircraft and takes off. He then deliberately crashes, killing himself and taking the blame for the crime.