Wissenswertes

The Corrigan mentioned by Gabby is a reference to Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (January 22, 1907 - December 9, 1995), an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas. He earned the nickname "Wrong Way" in 1938 when after a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach. He was thereafter known in American culture as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

The IWW, or more commonly known as the Wobblies, was a worldwide leftist labor organization founded in 1905 by socialists, progressives, and anarchists. It has always been viewed with suspicion by the government and lost considerable power in the years following World War II with the Taft-Hartly Act forbidding Communist leadership of labor unions.

"Valley Airport" was really Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California.

Stock footage of Pan American M-130 Clipper.

This film's earliest documented telecasts took place in Tucson Sunday 23 September 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9) and in Sacramento CA Sunday 28 October 1956 on KCRA (Channel 3); it first aired in Boston Friday 4 January 1957 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Indianapolis Tuesday 15 January 1957 on WISH (Channel 8), in Scranton Wednesday 6 February 1957 on WARM (Channel 16), in Nashville Tuesday 14 May 1957 on WLAC (Channel 5), in Salt Lake City Saturday 6 July 1957 on KUTV (Channel 2), and in Honolulu Monday 8 July 1957 on KHVH (Channel 13).