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5.8/10   136 votes
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Director:
Joseph Pevney
Writers:
Charles Schnee (writer)
Hank Searls (novel)
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Release Date:
2 September 1960 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Action | Drama more
Tagline:
The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!
Plot:
An navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Truly what a gem. Loved it more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dana Andrews ... Dick Barnett

Rhonda Fleming ... Cheryl 'Charro' Heath

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ... Dale Heath
John Kerr ... Mike Rule

Anne Francis ... Kitty Foster
Keenan Wynn ... Nick Hyland

Troy Donahue ... McVey
Joe Mantell ... Louis Capelli
Patsy Kelly ... Gertrude Ross
Donald May ... Norm Coster
Louis Quinn ... Sidney Schreiber
Ed Kemmer ... Caesar (as Edward Kemmer)
Tom Gilson ... Robert 'Rob' Fermi
Hollis Irving ... Beatrice Wiley
Paul Genge ... Samuel N. Poole
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
West Germany:18 (nf) | Finland:K-12

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In this film, _Efrem Zimbalist Jr._ plays a small aircraft pilot who crashes his plane into the commercial jet piloted by Dana Andrews. About a decade and a half later, Andrews would return the favor as his character's private plane crashed into Zimbalist's commercial jet in Airport 1975 (1974). more
Quotes:
Sidney Schreiber: I should be in the American flag business. Cigarettes turn me blue, whiskey turns me red, and women turn me white. more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Truly what a gem. Loved it, 16 December 2005
7/10
Author: MuggySphere from Adelaide, Australia

Yes I loved it. What a gem of a movie.

I taped this just on a whim as it was on a very late night run here and I have to say I loved it. I found it a treat and a gem. My favourite part of the film is when a character is thinking out loud the camera focuses in on that person and the lighting around them dims as we head into their world either via voice over or a flashback scene.

I would not mind adding this movie to my collection if it ever comes out on DVD. This is one of the movies, no doubt that paved the way for movies like "Airport" and all those awful disaster movies of the 70s and 80s. Good going I'll give it 7/10

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