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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
183 Views


Was someone talking about my daddy?

You was hearing things, kid.

When am I going back to see my daddy?

It's hard to say, Tommy.

Let me take him. He needs a woman.

He needs a lady.

I want to go home.

Shall I hold him?

Come, honey.

You mustn't cry.

I used to have a little boy.

Can't raise Tepic or panama anymore.

Too much static.

Well, we'll try the beam. Take over.

We've lost that, too.

Keep trying the range.

Want some hot coffee?

No.

How are the passengers?

Not bad,

But that detective fellow's

getting liquored up pretty fast.

Watch him. If he turns mean, call me.

Yes, sir.

Here comes the wind.

Any idea where we are?

We're a long ways south

of where we ought to be.

This wind is probably driving us inland.

Left engine. I may have to set her down.

Turn out the cabin

lights and drop a flare.

Right.

What's the matter with the lights?

Everybody fasten their

safety belts, please.

Look there! It will

set fire to the plane.

That's only the exhaust.

There's no danger from that.

This thing's worse

than a roller coaster.

Why don't they turn around and go back?

That's what I say.

Why should we risk our lives

Just so the pilot can get a good record?

Mr. Crimp, I'm sure the pilots

Know much more about it than we do.

You think so, do you?

Well, I know what I'm doing, too.

I'm going to turn this ship around.

What do you want?

You fellows may be after

a record, but I'm not.

Turn this ship around. Go back.

Go back and sit down.

Mr. Crimp, please

go back to your seat.

You keep out of this.

It's all right, Larry, we'll handle him.

Mrs. Spengler!

Yes.

You must be tired. Let me

take the baby for a while.

Thank you, miss Melhorne.

Be careful, Martha!

Hold on! Hold on!

Aah!

Aah!

Go back, I tell you!

Shut up! Can't you see

I have my hands full?

I said go back!

You, too! Can you hear me?

Stay where you are,

Joe. Drop another flare.

Right.

Left motor's dead.

I'll have to set her down.

Hold tight, everyone!

I'm going to set her down!

Give me your belt!

Fasten your belts!

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You all right, Judson?

Wrenched my arm, I think.

Are you all right, Mr. Spengler?

Yes, I'm all right. And you, dear?

I'm not hurt.

The steward's gone.

What are we going to do now?

There's nothing to do

but wait for daylight.

Make yourselves as

comfortable as you can.

We can't be far off the coast.

Hike it in a day or so.

Do you know how far we

are off our course, really?

Well, no, not exactly.

Well, it's easy to calculate.

We know how fast we

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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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