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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dana Andrews | ... | Dick Barnett | |
| Rhonda Fleming | ... | Cheryl 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 | ... | Rob Fermi | |
| Hollis Irving | ... | Beatrice Wiley | |
| Paul Genge | ... | Samuel N. Poole | |
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A navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks we learn about the personal problems of the pilots and most of the crew. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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aircraft cockpit | psychotronic film | method actor | jet plane | wet kiss |Taglines:
The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!Certificate:
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2 September 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Pánico en el aire See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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1.66 : 1
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(uncredited)
From "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played at the wedding
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Rhonda Fleming, who is second billed, has no scenes with any of the cast members in the main location, the commercial jet. Her sporadic role, as the manipulating wife of Efrem Zimbalist Jr., mostly occurs in Zimbalist's flashback sequences as he's flying the jet fighter. Also: her and Zimbalist's swimwear-clad bodies shown in the poster artwork, embraced and kissing liken to the famous scene in From Here to Eternity (1953), also derives from a flashback sequence. See more »Goofs
In El Paso, Dale tells McVey they will be flying non-stop to Washington, D.C. - a flying distance of about 1,720 miles. However, the Lockheed T-33 they are flying in has a range of only 1,275 miles. See more »Quotes
Cheryl Heath: I just love banana splits. Is it all the wonderful mixed-up flavors, or is it something Freudian?See more »
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Wedding March(uncredited)
From "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played at the wedding
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This movie had a lot of things that I enjoy: vintage commercial airplanes, old military airplanes, radios, radar, art, drama, romance, special effects, etc. In some respects, it must have served as a template for future airliner disaster movies. I don't know why, but I really enjoyed the heavy handed use of flashbacks and scenes where there's a close-up of a character, the surrounding lights dim, and we hear the character's private thoughts. Crowded Sky might not be your cup of tea, but it certainly was mine.