Wings in the Dark is a 1935 motion picture starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant focusing on a daring aviatrix and an inspired aviation inventor thrust into an unbearably desperate situation. Wings in the Dark was the first film that Loy and Grant made together, although Loy's biographer Emily Leider says that the film "wastes their talents and prompts an unintentional laugh fest." The movie remains notable as a rare movie depiction of a blind protagonist (played by Cary Grant) during the 1930s, and is also known for its accomplished aerial photography. Nell Shipman, one of the writers of the original story "Eyes of the Eagle," which pivoted upon a fictionalized version of Amelia Earhart, whom Shipman knew personally, was extremely disappointed by Myrna Loy's performance and the virtual exclusion of a seeing eye dog as one of the main characters. Graham Greene, in a review, called the film "as sentimental as it is improbable," but "as exciting as it is naive." Wings in the Dark was one of a number of poorly done aviation movies made during the early part of the Depression. The film was directed by James Flood and produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.