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Synopsis: Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety. Do both Bill and Joe make the flight out? And what about the rest: Peggy, a woman with a slightly tarnished past; Pete, a racketeer who is escorting his boss's young son Tommy; Alice and Judson, eloping lovers who seem to have less in common as their plight changes one of them in the other's eyes; Crimp, who is bringing criminal Vasquez to justice; Prof. and Mrs. Spengler, an elderly couple whom become closer due to their predicament; and finally, is fl
Director(s): John Farrow
Production: RKO Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.1
PASSED
Year:
1939
75 min
174 Views


Uh, sure, sure, I do.

Shall we say your prayers or mine?

Well, I'm kind of sick of my prayers.

Let's try yours.

Now I lay me down to sleep.

Now I lay me down to sleep.

I pray the lord my soul to keep.

I pray the lord my soul to keep.

If I should die before I wake...

if I should die before I wake...

I pray the lord my soul to take.

I pray the lord my soul to take.

Please take good care of my daddy.

It's personal right here.

You don't have to say

it if you don't want to.

Oh, sure, sure. I get it.

Please take good care of my daddy

And help us to get back together again

Soon as you think you can.

Thank you. Amen.

O.K., Tommy. Now can

we get some shuteye?

Good night, Pete.

Good night, kid.

Nice night.

Yeah.

We land at Tepic in

the morning, don't we?

That's what the timetable says.

I thought perhaps

you'd like a cigarette.

No smoking allowed in here.

You don't talk much, do you?

Lady, we hit some bumpy

air over the mountains,

You might feel it less if you go to bed.

Go to sleep.

I get it.

Well, good night.

Oh, why don't they go to sleep?

I'll take the call for you, Larry.

Don't bother, Mr. Brooks.

No bother at all.

Oh, I get it. Number 5's

that good-Looking gal.

You want to borrow my steward's coat?

Steward!

Oh, it's you.

Is there something I can do?

The ventilator's stuck...

but I called for the steward.

I'm pinch-Hitting for him.

I suppose he's flying the ship for you.

Seems to be jammed.

You know, we stop off at

Tepic, Mexico, in the morning.

They told me that when

I bought my ticket.

I'm pretty familiar with the town.

You seem to specialize

in getting familiar.

Sure. It's fun.

You ought to try it sometime.

Maybe we'll leave the

ventilator until morning.

No, no, no. You might catch cold.

Look, I've an idea.

Now, lie back.

Oh, but I don't see how that will help.

Please.

What now?

Are you warm enough?

Why, yes, thank you.

Are you sure? It's a bad draft.

Oh, yes, quite sure.

Well, then, good night.

Good night.

Martha, at last I can get a

bowl of real Mexican chili.

Chili for breakfast?

You'll have milk toast as usual.

But, Martha, we're on vacation.

Remember what the doctor said.

Very well, dear.

You'll do as I say.

Ah, senor Joe!

Buenos dias, senor.

Pedro, how are you? I'm glad

to see you. Excuse me a minute.

Oh, hello there.

Good morning.

I trust you slept well.

Like a log.

I hope you weren't bothered

By any draft last night, miss Melhorne.

Draft?

Oh, our pilots are so

considerate, Judson.

The policy of the company, ma'am.

Can we get a good breakfast here?

I was just going to suggest it.

I don't think I care for anything.

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Jerome Cady

Jerome Cady (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943), a successful adaptation of Forever Amber (1947) and the police procedural Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wing and a Prayer in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the Los Angeles Record, before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc. as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.. more…

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