Flight Into Danger

Flight Into Danger (1956)

When the pilot and co-pilot of a commercial flight become ill from food poisoning, a passenger who once flew in WW2 must take the controls and try to safely land the aircraft.

Date of release
1956-04-03
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
52m
Genres
Drama
Director
David Greene

Casting

Interesting facts

Flight into Danger is a 1956 Canadian live television play starring James Doohan, Corinne Conley and Cec Linder. It was written by Arthur Hailey, produced and screened by CBC Television, and broadcast on April 3, 1956, on the General Motors Theatre series. It was later adapted into two different feature films, a parody feature film, a novel, and international television versions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.

Production

Playwright Hailey, a former British pilot in the Second World War, emigrated to Canada in 1947. He began working as a sales promotion manager for a tractor-trailer manufacturer in Toronto. On a flight between Vancouver and Toronto in 1955, he came up with the original idea that spawned Flight into Danger.

The production acquired the cockpit of a Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair North Star and had it transported by road to the CBC studios in Toronto from RCAF Station Trenton, where the filming for aerial shots took place. The Malton Airport at Malton, Ontario, present day Toronto Pearson International Airport, was also used for some exterior scenes of planes.

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