Flight to Nowhere
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| Directed by | William Rowland |
| Produced by | William B. David |
| Written by | Arthur V. Jones |
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| Cinematography | Marcel Le Picard |
| Edited by | Gregg C. Tallas |
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Golden Gate Pictures
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| Distributed by | Screen Guild Productions |
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Flight to Nowhere is a 1946 film noir mystery film directed by William Rowland and stars Alan Curtis and Evelyn Ankers. The film was one of the first postwar productions to deal with the atom bomb secrets.
In Honolulu, an operative carrying a map revealing secret uranium deposits in the South Pacific was gunned down. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, "Hobe" Carrington (Alan Curtis) tries to turn down Countess Maria de Fresca's (Micheline Cheirel) request to hire him as a pilot for a flight to Death Valley. She changes his mind by promising him a dinner date. Before they can depart, Carrington is approached by his former superior in the armed forces, Bob Donovan (Jack Holt), now an FBI agent. Donovan tells Carrington to keep an eye out for the missing map.
The Countess and her party, including wealthy Catherine Forrest (Evelyn Ankers), Catherine's friend, James Van Bush (Roland Varno), Catherine's brother, Claude Forrest (John Craven), and mining engineer Gerald Porter (Jerome Cowan) are told they might need oxygen masks mid-flight in overflying a storm. Catherine and the Countess switch seats, but his oxygen mask has been disconnected, forcing Carrington to dive to save Catherine's life. The Countess later tells Carrington she fears someone may have actually been meaning to kill her.
Agent Donovan beats the flight to Death Valley and explains to Carrington that his passengers may be international racketeers who likely have the map. The group meets up with Tom Walker (Gordon Richards), another mining engineer. While separately trying to buy the map from Claude Forrest, Walker tries to bribe the Countess for a secret letter about Claude. By coincidence, Carrington's ex-wife, Irene Allison (Inez Cooper), also in Death Valley, knows the Countess is really Dolly Lorraine, an aspiring actress, who Irene worked with in a magic show. Later, Carrington rescues Catherine from Van Bush by throwing the annoying masher into the swimming pool. Carrington then discovers that Catherine has an unusual gold ring from Japan given to her by Claude. During the course of the evening, the secret letter is stolen five times, the fifth time stolen from Tom Walker, who is murdered.
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