31 years before Helen Hayes stowed away on a flight to Italy, singing pilot Phil Regan was the big hero in one of dozens of B movies about "air ships", playing a rather arrogant student who must go from sassy to serious when the local air field is at risk of closing. Harlan Briggs is "Pop", owner of the small condemned airport managed by "King Kong's" Robert Armstrong who has had enough of Regan's arrogance, but tries to guide him in the right direction. Pretty Jean Parker, the eternal 30's ingenue, is the sole flight attendant and of course the love interest. She's the only flight attendant I've ever seen who can surf the airplane aisle when the plane is coming in for a landing.
This passable programmer from Republic isn't ground breaking (or sound barrier breaking for that matter), just an average bottom of the double bill cheapy, not even notable for any exciting flight sequences outside two crash scenes, and a plotline that is obviously going to be resolved. The available edited TV print cuts out 15 minutes from the original running time, and nothing seems to be missing. Well maybe originality. Noah Beery Sr. And Roscoe Turner fill out the supporting cast, with Barbara Pepper in here somewhere, unless she got cut out when this crashed into TV syndication.
This passable programmer from Republic isn't ground breaking (or sound barrier breaking for that matter), just an average bottom of the double bill cheapy, not even notable for any exciting flight sequences outside two crash scenes, and a plotline that is obviously going to be resolved. The available edited TV print cuts out 15 minutes from the original running time, and nothing seems to be missing. Well maybe originality. Noah Beery Sr. And Roscoe Turner fill out the supporting cast, with Barbara Pepper in here somewhere, unless she got cut out when this crashed into TV syndication.
