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I saw this film some years back on PBS and only wish I could find a copy of it now. A young woman witnesses a murder in New York, and promptly leaves for England. She sees the news in a London paper about a man in New York about to be executed for the murder, and she knows he is innocent. She has to get back to NY as fast as possible to save an innocent man from the electric chair, and so she stows on the Air Boat, Non-stop to New York. Some of the lines are so good that years later, they still echo in my head.

Much of the movie takes place on this incredible aircraft, which takes off from the Thames in London, and is like a flying..., well, boat. Dining room, state rooms, close quarters, nasty travel companions. It's all here.

Borders on Film Noir, but with a wry sense of humor.

If you like the style of the 1940s, and slightly outlandish stories so characteristic of the period, I dare say you will enjoy this English trifle quite a bit!

I won't reveal the ending, so you'll have to see the film to know if she arrives in time!

This is an amazing motion picture which tracks the production of meat, starting with livestock, and ending with the clear-wrapped steaks we find in our markets.

A stark, straight forward black and white account of how animals become food. Brutally honest and unflinching, this film is not for the faint of heart. It pulls no punches - but simply and graphically traces the process of stunning, slaughter, disembowelment, dismemberment, and butchering of animals. There is no narrative. Just an impassive, no-frills recording of the process by the eye of the camera.

You will probably have a hard time going back to a plate of meat too soon after viewing this film. But it's a worthwhile examination of food processing that gives you a sense of the reality behind that steak.

I saw this movie on TV with my older brother when I was about 5, and it was a favorite. We played "GOG" with each other for years. I was intrigued and excited by the mechanical demons and the portrayed "automation," which appealed to my young mind. By the time I was about 10 or 11, I saw it again. So excited by the prospect, I was disappointed to see just how fake and hokey they movie actually was. Funny how differently it had manifested in my mind all those years - and what a disappointment it was to see it again! But I wish I could see it now, some 40 years later, for a more adult