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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
182 Views


Please leave us alone. What

we do is our own affair.

It's no use, Alice. We've

got to talk sometime.

If I make a statement,

Will you promise to

print exactly what I say?

You bet we will.

Sure thing.

The reason we're being married

is because we're in love.

The reason our parents object

Is because they don't

think we've sense enough

To know our own minds.

That's the truth.

That's the whole story.

No mystery, no scandal, no nothing.

Where are you going to be married?

Panama city. Tomorrow.

Would you mind standing

there for a picture, please?

Get out of there, will you, boy?

I want to make this romantic.

Thank you.

So she's his secretary.

So what?

I bought their breakfast for them.

Come on, boy.

What do they say?

Keep on going.

Weather at panama is zero, zero.

He thinks we're about

in the middle of it.

Can we get above it?

We'll try.

But I think it's the

same clear to the moon.

Will you leave that radio alone?

It's going away from our station so fast

I have to keep retuning it all the time

Or we won't get anything.

It's too bad we're not a

little further south, Mr. Ellis,

I could point out the most

interesting territory...

The home of the Jivaros,

a tribe of headhunters.

Oh, I've heard a great

deal about them, professor.

When they kill an enemy, they cut

off his head as a trophy of war.

Exactly. I must write a book

about the Jivaros sometime.

After obtaining the head of an enemy,

They slit the skin from

crown to nape of neck

And remove the skull.

Then they fill the empty skin

With hot sand or gravel and sew it up.

I believe I told you, my dear,

That has the effect

of shrinking the head

To the size of a large orange.

Will you please be quiet?

And in

several days...

I asked you to be quiet.

You're a very unusual fellow, Mr. Crimp.

Are you a simple maniac

depressive or a schizophrenic?

Your nerves are going

back on you, Mr. Crimp.

I'd rather have a drink.

You'd be better without it, sir.

Will we be out of this soon?

Yes, miss. These tropical

storms go faster than they come.

May I lower your berth?

Sandwiches?

No, thanks.

Doesn't seem to bother him any.

He's like a baby.

Lawrence...

tell the driver to be very careful.

Yes, ma'am.

We interrupt this program

to bring you a special bulletin

From American press.

The end of a notorious career

was reached in the gutter

Outside the Winslow hotel

in san Francisco today

When Michael Mulvaney was shot to death.

Mulvaney, one-Time

big-Shot mob leader,

Was riddled by a dozen bullets

When he attempted to shoot his

way out of a trap set for him

By members of his former gang...

shut that thing off!

Who resented

his attempt...

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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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