Jet Over The Atlantic

Jet Over The Atlantic (1959)

Panic in the skies!

Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.

Date of release
1959-11-04
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Byron Haskin

Casting

Interesting facts

Jet Over the Atlantic is a 1959 drama film directed by Byron Haskin and stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft and Ilona Massey. The film's title was misleading as the airliner was a Bristol Britannia turboprop-engined, not "pure" jet-powered aircraft. George Raft's biographer Everett Aaker called Jet Over the Atlantic "a precursor of the disaster genre."

Production

The film was the first production from Inter-Continent Films and Inter-Continent Releasing, two companies formed by Benedict Bogeaus and James R. Grainger. They announced a series of films, including Jet Over the Atlantic, The Gold Bug, Shoot Out!, Early Autumn and The Glass Wall.

Principal photography on Jet Over the Atlantic took place from April 27 to early June 1959 in Mexico City.

Jet Over the Atlantic marked George Raft's final major appearance in a film. His role was limited and a visibly ill Raft required oxygen on the set. The film was also notable for Ilona Massey's return to films after a 10-year absence, and as Guy Madison's last American film.

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