Five Came Back (1939)
- Directed by
- John Farrow
- Genre
- drama film, disaster film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 41 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A plane crashes in a remote South American jungle, leaving twelve passengers and crew marooned. They must survive hostile natives while facing personal conflicts and moral decisions as they try to escape.
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What happens
Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Although considered a B movie, the positive notices received by Ball helped launch her career as an A-list actress. Five Came Back is considered a precursor of the disaster film genre. The supporting cast features Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, C. Aubrey Smith, Kent Taylor, and Patric Knowles. In 1948, Five Came Back was remade (differing only in minor details) as the Mexican film Los que volvieron and again in 1956 by producer-director Farrow as Back from Eternity, starring Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg and Rod Steiger. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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La Brigade sauvage (1939)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.