Jet Over the Atlantic (1959)

Original title

Jet Over The Atlantic

Directed by

Byron Haskin

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Passengers and crew aboard a transatlantic flight face a crisis in the air. A bomb threat and other dangers force everyone on the plane to confront their own secrets.

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What happens

Jet Over the Atlantic (also known as High Over the Atlantic) is a 1959 drama film directed by Byron Haskin and stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft and Ilona Massey. The film's title was misleading as the airliner was a Bristol Britannia turboprop-engined, not "pure" jet-powered aircraft. George Raft's biographer Everett Aaker called Jet Over the Atlantic "a precursor of the disaster genre." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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