13 Hours by Air (1936)
1936 · Feature film · 74 min · dir. Mitchell Leisen
ROMANCE AT 5 MILES-A-MINUTE!
- Mystery
- Thriller
Synopsis
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Mitchell Leisen
- Writer
- Bogart Rogers
- Cinematography
- Theodor Sparkuhl
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1936-04-30
- Running time
- 74 minutes
Cast & crew
Mitchell Leisen Director
Fred MacMurray
Joan Bennett
Zasu Pitts
John Howard
Benny Bartlett
Grace Bradley
Alan Baxter
Brian Donlevy
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Great airline drama before its time · Cheeze09 · 2023-01-08
I have always liked airline films, even more after working for EAL, Air Canada, and Air France for several years. This is a good movie, quite enjoyable with some surprises. Airline dramas haven't changed much. Fred McMurray rattled off his lines like he was on energy drugs. The film quality is quite good and the air scenes, though done in a studio, were decent despite the outboard airplane scenes being an obvious toy except during the airport sequences where the Boeing two prop was genuine. I gave it four stars. Worth watching.
