The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
The Stickup Of The Century... Far Above The Clouds!, Terror Rides the Airways!
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
- Date of release
- 1940-12-09
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 1m
- Genres
- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Director
- Lewis D. Collins
Casting
- Jack Holt — Mike Henderson
- Stanley Fields — Frankie Toller
- Vickie Lester — Helen Carver
- Noel Madison — Joe Colson
- Jeff York — Jim Day
- Theodore von Eltz — Rod Brothers
- Hobart Cavanaugh — Homer Pringle
- Milburn Stone — Krebber
- Paul Fix — Nick Harmon
- Harry Cording — Eddie Lindo
- John Hamilton — Dr. Jamison
- Doris Lloyd — Mrs. Jamison
Interesting facts
The Great Plane Robbery is a 1940 crime-adventure B film directed by Lewis D. Collins. Collins was more often associated with directing serials for Universal and Columbia Pictures. It stars Jack Holt, Stanley Fields and Noel Madison. Though typical of the melodramas that Holt made after transitioning from silent screen epics, western and adventure films were his forte. Reviewer Hal Erickson found it ironic that Holt, who in real life had a fear of flying, starred in so many aviation-oriented films. It was written by Albert DeMond from a story by Harold Greene.
Production
Principal photography, under the working title of Keep Him Alive, took place from April 14 to 24, 1940.
Some filming took place at the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California.
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