"the finger" in 1932 Hollywood epic

[Jonathan Lighter]

About three-fourths of the way through _The Lost Squadron_ (1932; dir.
George Archainbaud), Robert Armstrong (later of _King Kong_) clearly and
vigorously gives Richard Dix the finger from the cockpit of a biplane which
has just been sabotaged by Erich von Stroheim.

Naturally I thought I was crazy, but with the help of the olde DVR I
verified the gesture plus my sanity.  A reviewer at IMDb caught it as well,
even though he calls the gesture "the bird":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023151/reviews

I've never seen it elsewhere in a movie before ca1970.

Otherwise the film wasn't real swell. Two stars.

JL

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