Summaries

During the Cold War, a mysterious plane carrying $3 million arrives at Tangier airport, and various interested parties try to grab the cash.

At the Tangier airport, a group of people await the arrival of a mysterious plane from behind the Iron Curtain. The reception committee includes Susan, an American; Gil Walker, a free-booting pilot; Danzer, a black market operator; and Danzer's girlfriend, Nicki. The plane crashes and burns. No survivors are found, nor are any corpses. Soon the search begins for a missing courier worth $3 million.—Ray Hamel <[email protected]>

Originally released in 3-D, the film begins when a pilotless plane crashes at the Tangier airport. Those awaiting the plane include Gil Walker (Jack Palance), a sometime dabbler in black-market operations and an unjustified winner of a Congressional Medal of Honor; Susan (Joan Fontaine), an Americal girl engaged to the missing pilot; and Nicole (Corinne Calvet), a French girl whose affections seem to be evenly divided between Walker and various other Tangier underworld characters. The plane was supposed to be bringing in $3,000,000 to finance the purchase, by an Iron Curtain agent, of war planes from a Tangier black-market operator. Susan enlists the aid of Walker to find the missing pilot and the money, which she knows to be safely hidden 75 miles south of Tangier. The chase is on with Susan and Walker pursued by the black-market racketeers who, in turn, are trailed by the police.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • american abroad
  • 1950s
  • airplane
  • 3d
  • 3 dimensional
Genres
  • Action
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Film-Noir
Release date Nov 20, 1953
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English Spanish French
Filming locations Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Nat Holt Productions

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

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