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A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
Pedro de Cordoba
- Latin Ambassador
- (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
- Airport Worker
- (uncredited)
Robert Homans
- Police Captain
- (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
- Airline Official
- (uncredited)
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A well mounted 1939 adventure yarn which would be the blueprint for future disaster films to come like the Airport series or even The Poseidon Adventure. A cross section of character actors are on a flight from the States to South America when during an engine outage, the plane goes down in the Aztec region prompting the survivors to work together to repair the plane, learn something about themselves & hopefully pull all the disparate strings together before an unseen tribe of natives knock them off one by one. Featuring Lucille Ball (?) & John Carradine, this movie is a delight just from an film aficionado's standpoint since we get to see where a lot of the later stories got their DNA from.
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- TriviaBudgeted at a mere $225,000, which was extremely low even by RKO standards, this picture netted a rather impressive $262,000 in profits.
- GoofsWhen Vasquez checks his pistol at the end, there are only two cartridges in the cylinder; the remaining four chambers are empty. A revolver doesn't eject spent cartridges, so the other chambers should still contain spent shells.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Le roi des zombies (1941)
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- Budget
- $225,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Quels seront les cinq? (1939) officially released in India in English?
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