Night Flight (1933)

Directed by

Clarence Brown

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film covers one day at a South American air mail service. The pilots fly dangerous routes over the Andes while their boss waits anxiously for news from each plane.

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What happens

Night Flight (also known as Dark to Dawn) is a 1933 American pre-Code aviation drama film produced by David O. Selznick, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown and starring John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy. The picture is based on the 1931 novel of the same name, which won the Prix Femina the same year, by French writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Based on Saint-Exupéry's personal experiences while flying on South American mail routes, Night Flight recreates a 24-hour period of the operations of a fictional airline based on Aéropostale, Trans-Andean European Air Mail. In 1942, Night Flight was withdrawn from circulation as a result of a legal dispute between MGM and Saint Exupéry. The film was unavailable for 69 years and could not be seen until 2011, when the legal obstacles were finally settled. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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