Courrier de Chine

Original title: China Clipper

1936
Approved
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

698

YOUR RATING

Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander, and Beverly Roberts in Courrier de Chine (1936)

Play trailer3:08

1 Video

17 Photos

Adventure Drama Romance

Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.

Director
- Ray Enright
Writers
- Frank Wead
- Norman Reilly Raine
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

698

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ray Enright
Writers
- Frank Wead
- Norman Reilly Raine
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

Videos1

Trailer 3:08

China Clipper

Photos17

+ 10

‘Snow White’ Stars Test Their Wits

Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, and director Marc Webb take our Ultimate Disney Quiz.

Watch now

9:57

More like this

6.4

7.0

6.5

7.7

6.6

6.7

7.0

5.7

7.0

6.0

5.5

5.2

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Henry B. Walthall collapsed on the set while filming and died shortly thereafter. The script of the unfinished film was rewritten so that his character would die off-screen, a heart condition having already been established in a previously filmed scene.

Goofs
The film begins on the day that Dave Logan (Pat O'Brien) arrives back in New York by ship which was also the same day that Charles Lindburgh had a ticket tape parade following his May, 1927 nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris which took place on June 14, 1927. Later that same day, Logan quits his job with James Horn & Co. Importers in order to go back to aviation by starting an airline flying between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. which he established in conjunction with the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia... which had taken place the year before, running from May 31 to November 30, 1926.

Quotes
Hap Stuart: [Offscreen] Watta yuh do when the wings fall off?
Dave Logan: [Not knowing who's talking to him] Take a train, sucker.

Connections
Edited into Police judiciaire (1937)

Soundtracks
The Stars and Stripes Forever
(1896) (uncredited)
Written by John Philip Sousa
Played at the ceremony before the China Clipper's initial Pacific flight

User reviews16

Featured review

Classic film especially for aviators

This is a great and exciting movie especially if you are a pilot as I am. It reflects a time in aviation that was exciting. Those days are gone forever. I would have enjoyed travel in those flying boats not to mention piloting them. I am from Miami and remember Dinner Key. Those flying boats parked in the bay looked so magnificent with the cumulus nimbus clouds over the Atlantic in the background. I recorded this movie years ago and watch it from time to time and I always enjoy it's vintage scenes. Those great flying boats were magnificent and I can only imagine the joy and sense of adventure flying around the west and south Pacific island hopping! It is true escapism. I highly recommend this movie.