Forced Landing

Forced Landing (1935)

In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.

Date of release
1935-12-02
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 6m
Genres
Mystery
Director
Melville W. Brown

Casting

Interesting facts

Forced Landing is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Melville W. Brown and written by William Scott Darling. The film stars Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing, Edward Nugent and Barbara Pepper. Forced Landing was released on November 2, 1935, by Republic Pictures.

Production

Production Dates for Forced Landing took place from September

Most of the action took place on the ground but the aircraft in Forced Landing were:

Aeronca C2 Aviation film historian Stephen Pendo in Aviation in the Cinema (1985) describes the scenes in Forced Landing are historically accurate in showing the airliner operation in flight.

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