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Ernest K. Gann (book)
Marc Norman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1 March 1985 (USA) more
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A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves. | add synopsis
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A good view of the birth of commercial aviation more (5 total)

Cast

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Christopher Reeve ... Edgar Anscombe

Rosanna Arquette ... Tillie Hansen

Jack Warden ... Moravia
Sam Wanamaker ... Bruno Hansen
Scott Wilson ... Jerry Stiller
Tyne Daly ... Evelyn Stiller

Marcia Strassman ... Rose Stiller
Will Hare ... Old Man

Robert Pierce ... Student Pilot
Glenn Neufeld ... George Hansen
Frano Lasic ... Daniel Hansen
Ron Travis ... Probosky
Jeff Harding ... Carson
Paul Reid Roman ... Counterman
Paul Lichtman ... Customer
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Runtime:
96 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Anachronisms: The Boeing Stearmam plane used in the film had his maiden flight in 1936. It can't have flown in the early 1920s. more

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A good view of the birth of commercial aviation, 5 January 2008
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Author: wlb from Sacramento CA

Few people know that Christopher Reeve was also an aviation enthusiast who had his own Beechcraft Baron. And he transferred that enthusiasm to his screen persona, an ex WW1 pilot who, scarred by an incident, goes on to flying mail planes in the early 1920s.

Roseanne Arquette played the spoiled rich girl who becomes his first passenger.

They crash land in the Nevada mountains and the rest of the movie concerns their survival and both of their personal transformations.

If you'd like to get a good idea about the birth of commercial flying I'd recommend the movie.

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