Underplayed Gems

Jet Over the Atlantic (1959)

Jet Over the Atlantic poster
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
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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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