An airline pilot believes he's a pilot who was killed during WW I.An airline pilot believes he's a pilot who was killed during WW I.An airline pilot believes he's a pilot who was killed during WW I.
Bill Anders
- Weeks - Control Tower
- (uncredited)
Madelon Baker
- Daisy - Maid
- (uncredited)
James J. Casino
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Charles J. Conrad
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Michael Dale
- Schenectady Biplane Pilot
- (uncredited)
Beatrice Gray
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Earl Hansen
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThey may have gotten the runway heading wrong but they got April 29th, 1918 right. It was a Monday.
- GoofsAirport runway numbers are based on the direction and cannot go as high as 37.
- Quotes
John Bolan aka Lt. Peter Stevens: My name is John Bolan. I was the pilot on your flight to Chicago yesterday.
Mrs. Jane Stone: Oh yes, of course. I didn't recognize you at first without your uniform.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Agency (1980)
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The ageless regal bearing of Ann Harding...
... here at age 53, has quite a bit to do with how well this film works.
First scene, there is a WWI dogfight going on, and an allied plane crashes and burns. Next scene, it is a 1931 air show, and some twelve year old kid is flying around in one of the old WWI planes. The people on the ground are justifiably panicked. But the kid lands the plane like a pro. When questioned about it, the kid says he just seemed to know how to fly and land the plane. Jump to present day and that kid who has grown up to be pilot John Bolan (Jock Mahoney) is boarding his plane. He and the copilot indulge in small talk about John's upcoming marriage. But then John sees a passenger (Ann Harding as Jane Stone). He asks her if they know each other or if she has ever flown this airline before. She says no to both, in fact it is the first time she has flown. John goes back to the cockpit, somewhat in a daze. Then he starts to drive the plane into the ground, talking about the flames and how he's been shot. The copilot has to knock the pilot out to get him to relinquish control so that he can guide the plane to safety.
On the ground, and in the hospital, John Bolan thinks that he is WWI pilot Peter Stephens, killed in a dogfight in 1918. He does come to his senses eventually, but still has memories of the dead WWI pilot and feels he is the reincarnation of this man. He doesn't want to spend his life being haunted by this man he never knew, and believes that passenger Jane Stone is the key to what is going on, since seeing her and seeming to recognize her is what brought on his "attack" in the cockpit.
This film was an unexpected delight for me. I had never heard of it, and it looks spartanly done as though it were a poverty row film by that era, although it was made by Universal. It has no big names in the cast except for Ms. Harding, whose heyday was really the 1930s. John McIntyre, one of the great character actors, has a larger part than I am accustomed to seeing him in as John's sympathetic doctor after his breakdown, the fatherly voice of reason.
Several surprises in this film. First, nobody thinks John is a fraud. They all think him a good man in search of solutions. At worst obsessed, but not a liar. Second, there are no firm conclusions. In the end, the doctor says that man is only beginning to understand the mind, and there could be any number of explanations as to what has transpired. Third, Ann Harding commands your attention as much at age 53 as she did at age 28. She is truly timeless. Finally, John, after having what appears as a psychotic break and almost crashing one of their airplanes with 28 passengers aboard, is assured by his boss that all of his medical bills will be taken care of! Fat chance of that happening today. And the boss that assures him of this is played by Raymond Bailey, who ironically played skinflint banker Milburn Drysdale on the long running TV show The Beverly Hillbillies .
This is really worth seeking out.
First scene, there is a WWI dogfight going on, and an allied plane crashes and burns. Next scene, it is a 1931 air show, and some twelve year old kid is flying around in one of the old WWI planes. The people on the ground are justifiably panicked. But the kid lands the plane like a pro. When questioned about it, the kid says he just seemed to know how to fly and land the plane. Jump to present day and that kid who has grown up to be pilot John Bolan (Jock Mahoney) is boarding his plane. He and the copilot indulge in small talk about John's upcoming marriage. But then John sees a passenger (Ann Harding as Jane Stone). He asks her if they know each other or if she has ever flown this airline before. She says no to both, in fact it is the first time she has flown. John goes back to the cockpit, somewhat in a daze. Then he starts to drive the plane into the ground, talking about the flames and how he's been shot. The copilot has to knock the pilot out to get him to relinquish control so that he can guide the plane to safety.
On the ground, and in the hospital, John Bolan thinks that he is WWI pilot Peter Stephens, killed in a dogfight in 1918. He does come to his senses eventually, but still has memories of the dead WWI pilot and feels he is the reincarnation of this man. He doesn't want to spend his life being haunted by this man he never knew, and believes that passenger Jane Stone is the key to what is going on, since seeing her and seeming to recognize her is what brought on his "attack" in the cockpit.
This film was an unexpected delight for me. I had never heard of it, and it looks spartanly done as though it were a poverty row film by that era, although it was made by Universal. It has no big names in the cast except for Ms. Harding, whose heyday was really the 1930s. John McIntyre, one of the great character actors, has a larger part than I am accustomed to seeing him in as John's sympathetic doctor after his breakdown, the fatherly voice of reason.
Several surprises in this film. First, nobody thinks John is a fraud. They all think him a good man in search of solutions. At worst obsessed, but not a liar. Second, there are no firm conclusions. In the end, the doctor says that man is only beginning to understand the mind, and there could be any number of explanations as to what has transpired. Third, Ann Harding commands your attention as much at age 53 as she did at age 28. She is truly timeless. Finally, John, after having what appears as a psychotic break and almost crashing one of their airplanes with 28 passengers aboard, is assured by his boss that all of his medical bills will be taken care of! Fat chance of that happening today. And the boss that assures him of this is played by Raymond Bailey, who ironically played skinflint banker Milburn Drysdale on the long running TV show The Beverly Hillbillies .
This is really worth seeking out.
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- Mar 11, 2021
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