Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie star as two pilots -- natch! When due to the underhanded tactics of Ivan Lebedeff to cut out Merrill from super-rich Paula Stone, fellow pilot Weldon Heyburn is almost killed, it's up to them to fly to England and back muy pronto to fetch the serum that can save him.
Merrill and Lambie were were celebrities from having just flown the first commercial transatlantic flight. Trem Carr at the newly reconstituted Monogram Pictures figured it was a good way to get some extra publicity for an airplane movie. Neither of the two gentlemen were actors, so their line readings are poor, but ti was a canny move. Putting celebrities into movies for their fans was a long-established thing; Babe Ruth starred in a couple of silent movies, and the practice is still occasionally seen; Clint Eastwood's 15:17 TO PARIS, about how four Americans on holiday thwarted a terrorist attack on a railroad in France starred the young men who did it.
Merrill was held in high regard by his fellow pilots. During his 1952 presidential campaign, Eisenhower got him as his personal pilot. By the time he retired as an airline pilot in 1961, he had commanded 36,000 hours in flight. In total he flew more than eight million miles. He died in 181 at the age of 88.
Merrill and Lambie were were celebrities from having just flown the first commercial transatlantic flight. Trem Carr at the newly reconstituted Monogram Pictures figured it was a good way to get some extra publicity for an airplane movie. Neither of the two gentlemen were actors, so their line readings are poor, but ti was a canny move. Putting celebrities into movies for their fans was a long-established thing; Babe Ruth starred in a couple of silent movies, and the practice is still occasionally seen; Clint Eastwood's 15:17 TO PARIS, about how four Americans on holiday thwarted a terrorist attack on a railroad in France starred the young men who did it.
Merrill was held in high regard by his fellow pilots. During his 1952 presidential campaign, Eisenhower got him as his personal pilot. By the time he retired as an airline pilot in 1961, he had commanded 36,000 hours in flight. In total he flew more than eight million miles. He died in 181 at the age of 88.