Emergency Landing (1941)
Daredevil Test Pilot vs. Society's Dizzest Deb!
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
- Date of release
- 1941-03-07
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Romance, War
- Director
- William Beaudine
Casting
- Forrest Tucker — Jerry Barton
- Carol Hughes — Betty Lambert
- Evelyn Brent — Maude Lambert
- Emmett Vogan — 'Doc' Williams
- William Halligan — George B. Lambert
- George Sherwood — Jones
- Thornton Edwards — Pedro
- I. Stanford Jolley — Karl
- Stanley Price — Otto
- Billy Curtis — Judge
- Jack Lescoulie — Capt. North
- Paul Scott — Col. Lemon
Interesting facts
Emergency Landing is a 1941 American aviation spy-fi romantic screwball comedy film directed by William Beaudine. The film stars Forrest Tucker in his second film and in his first leading role with co-stars Carol Hughes and Evelyn Brent. Emergency Landing features much-mismatched stock footage of various types of aircraft.
Production
Principal photography for Emergency Landing took place from late March to early April 1941. After a stint in Great Britain, director William "One Shot" Beaudine returned to America in 1937 but had trouble re-establishing himself at the major studios. After working at Warner Brothers, Beaudine found work on Poverty Row, working for studios specializing in low-budget films, such as Monogram Pictures and Producers Releasing Corporation.
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