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Sky Liner (film)
1949 American film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sky Liner is a 1949 American film noir action crime film directed by William Berke. It was released on the bottom half of double bills.[1][2]
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Plot
The film follows a selection of passengers on a long distance overnight flight on a silver Lockheed Constellation with Trans World Airlines, through a series of vignettes looking at the passengers and crew. Characters range from a precocious child star (intended to echo Shirley Temple) to businessmen and criminals.
An FBI man (Richard Travis) and a stewardess (Pamela Blake) solve a spy murder on the crowded airliner after a dead man is found in the lavatory. All passengers are suspects. They discover the victim has been stabbed by a fountain pen containing Curare poison.
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Cast
- Richard Travis as Steve Blair
- Pamela Blake as Carol
- Rochelle Hudson as Amy Winthrop
- Steven Geray as Bokejian
- Gaylord Pendleton as Smith
- Ralph Peters as Joe Kirk
- Michael Whalen as Ben Howard
- Greg McClure as J. S. Conningsby
- Lisa Ferraday as Mariette La Fare
- Roy Butler as Mr. Jennings
- Jean Clark as Mrs. Jennings
- David Holt as Buford
- Dodie Holt as Grace Ward
- William F. Leicester as Captain Fairchild – Pilot (as Wm. Leicester)
- Ezelle Poule as Elvin's Sister
- Herbert Evans as Sir Harry Finneston
- Alice Ritchie as Elvia's
- Jeanne Sorel as Brunet Stewardess (as Jean Sorel)
- Anne Lu Jones as Airline Ticket Agent
- Jack Mulhall as Col. Hanson
- Allan Hersholt as Courier (as Alan Hersholt)
- John McGuire as George Eakins
- George Meeker as Financier
- Anna Mae Slaughter as Mary Ann
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Production
Filming started 25 April 1949 at Hal Roach's studios. It was described as "a kind of Grand Hotel of an airliner."[3]
It was made by the same writing-directing-producing team that had done Highway 13.[4]
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