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Cast
John Barrymore | ... |
Riviere
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Helen Hayes | ... |
Simone Fabian
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Clark Gable | ... |
Jules Fabian
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Lionel Barrymore | ... |
Insp. Robineau
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Robert Montgomery | ... |
Auguste Pellerin
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Myrna Loy | ... |
Wife of Brazilian Pilot
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William Gargan | ... |
Brazilian Pilot
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C. Henry Gordon | ... |
Daudet
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Leslie Fenton | ... |
Jules' Radio Operator / Co-Pilot
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Harry Beresford | ... |
Pierre Roblet
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Frank Conroy | ... |
Radio Operator
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Dorothy Burgess | ... |
Pellerin's Girlfriend
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Irving Pichel | ... |
Dr. Decosta
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Helen Jerome Eddy | ... |
Worried Mother
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Buster Phelps | ... |
Sick Child
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Ralf Harolde | ... |
Pilot
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Marcia Ralston | ... |
Nightclub Vamp
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Maurice Black | ... |
Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
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Ed Brady | ... |
Radio Operator on Telephone (uncredited)
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Sidney D'Albrook | ... |
Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
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Claire Du Brey | ... |
Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
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Sherry Hall | ... |
Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
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Otto Hoffman | ... |
Airport Office Clerk (uncredited)
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George Irving | ... |
Santiago Doctor (uncredited)
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Wallace MacDonald | ... |
Mechanic (uncredited)
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Michael Mark | ... |
Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
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Francis McDonald | ... |
Radioman (uncredited)
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Louis Natheaux | ... |
Radioman (uncredited)
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Inez Palange | ... |
Simone's Maid (uncredited)
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Edward Peil Sr. | ... |
Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
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Evelyn Selbie | ... |
Mother in Window (uncredited)
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Directed by
Clarence Brown |
Written by
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... | (novel "Vol de nuit") |
Oliver H.P. Garrett | ... | (screenplay) |
Wells Root | ... | () (uncredited) |
Produced by
Clarence Brown | ... | producer |
David O. Selznick | ... | executive producer |
Music by
Herbert Stothart |
Cinematography by
Oliver T. Marsh | ... | (photographed by) |
Editing by
Hal C. Kern |
Casting By
Ben Piazza | ... | (uncredited) |
Art Direction by
Alexander Toluboff | ||
Cedric Gibbons | ... | (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Charles Dorian | ... | assistant director (uncredited) |
Art Department
Hobe Erwin | ... | interior decorator |
Sound Department
Douglas Shearer | ... | recording director |
Robert Shirley | ... | sound recordist (uncredited) |
Special Effects by
A. Arnold Gillespie | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Stunts
Paul Mantz | ... | stunt pilot (uncredited) |
Ivan Unger | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Elmer Dyer | ... | aerial photography |
Charles A. Marshall | ... | aerial photography (as Charles Marshall) |
Eddie Fitzgerald | ... | second camera operator (uncredited) |
Kyme Meade | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Cliff Shirpser | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Music Department
Oscar Radin | ... | conductor |
Charles Maxwell | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Production Companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (controlled by Loew's Incorporated)
Distributors
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1933) (United States) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1933) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1934) (Norway) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1934) (France) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1934) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Film AB Le Mat-Metro-Goldwyn (1935) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Media Target Distribution (2020) (Germany) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2011) (United States) (DVD)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1934) (Belgium) (theatrical)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America (acknowledgement)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
In South America, the daunting mountains and dangerous weather have hampered the operations of Trans-Andean European Air Mail, a 1930s-era airline. Charged with delivering a serum to stem an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Rio de Janeiro, Auguste Pellerin (Robert Montgomery) conquers his fears, but is reprimanded by the airline's stern director, A. Rivière (John Barrymore) for coming in late. Determined to make the night flight program work, Rivière sends pilot Jules Fabian (Clark Gable) and his wireless operator on another dangerous flight. The pair are caught in a torrential rain storm and when Madame Fabian (Helen Hayes) comes to the headquarters, she realizes that her husband is overdue. The two airmen, flying blind over the ocean, run out of fuel and choose to jump, but drown. Rivière refuses to quit and orders a Brazilian pilot (William Gargan) to take the mail to Rio, but the pilot's wife (Myrna Loy) pleads with him not to go. Despite the dangers, the night mail is delivered on time. The pilot despairs that his flight only meant that someone in Paris can get a postcard on Tuesday instead of Thursday, but its real value is proven when the serum is also delivered and a child is saved. The mother weeps for joy at her child's bedside, and the scene dissolves to two parachutes floating on the ocean. A ghostly plane appears with Fabian, smiling, at the controls. He soars up into the sky, followed by a host of phantom biplanes; the following words appear on screen: "And such is human courage...that men died...so others might live...and so, at last, man's empire might reach triumphant to the sky!" |
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Taglines | So big and compelling, so filled with tense emotion, studded with stars. that no lover of motion pictures would want to miss it! (Print Ad-Leader-Post, Regina, Sask.)) 22 March 1934) See more » |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | It was originally planned to show Clark Gable's character parachuting from his abandoned plane at an altitude of 25,000 feet. However, stuntman Ivan Unger, who was doubling for Gable, passed out at 20,000 feet due to lack of oxygen and the shot was never captured. See more » |
Goofs | At about the 10-minute mark, the shadow of the Patagonia biplane (the one piloted by J. Fabian, played by Clark Gable) is shown over various parts of the pasture-lands of Argentina. The shadows cast over the horse and herd of cattle below are that of a biplane, but the shadow going over the flock of sheep is clearly that of a monoplane, not a biplane. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Super 8 (2011). See more » |
Soundtracks | How Dry I Am See more » |
Crazy Credits | During opening credits, the film title is done as "sky writing" by an airplane, and the plane is just finishing the last "T" on "flight". See more » |
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Wife of Brazilian Pilot:
What's it all for? Just so somebody in Paris can get a postcard on Tuesday instead of Thursday? See more » |