An airline pilot believes he's a pilot who was killed during WW I.An airline pilot believes he's a pilot who was killed during WW I.An airline pilot believes he's a pilot who was killed during WW I.
Bill Anders
- Weeks - Control Tower
- (uncredited)
Madelon Baker
- Daisy - Maid
- (uncredited)
James J. Casino
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Charles J. Conrad
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Michael Dale
- Schenectady Biplane Pilot
- (uncredited)
Beatrice Gray
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Earl Hansen
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThey may have gotten the runway heading wrong but they got April 29th, 1918 right. It was a Monday.
- GoofsAirport runway numbers are based on the direction and cannot go as high as 37.
- Quotes
John Bolan aka Lt. Peter Stevens: My name is John Bolan. I was the pilot on your flight to Chicago yesterday.
Mrs. Jane Stone: Oh yes, of course. I didn't recognize you at first without your uniform.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Agency (1980)
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It's not a good film, but it's an interesting subject. How they treat it could be discussed indeed, and it's not very well.
The story is this. A passenger airplane pilot sees an elderly lady as a passenger he has never seen before but recognizes her and gets confused for not being able to place her. In the confusion in charge of the plane he suddenly becomes another person and almost crashes the plane. When he wakes up at the hospital he still believes he is a crashed war pilot of world war one. Of course, this creates a problem, especially since he doesn't even recognize the girl he is going to marry.
The whole rest of the film is only discussions, so it gets monotonous, but Ann Harding as the elderly lady makes a fascinating performance - she commands every scene she appears in, and it's actually her case the whole story is about.
It becomes something like a metaphysical detective story. The doctor's explanation of the phenomenon is that it's all about telepathy. All doubters are of course, like always, eventually proved stupid and wrong.
Phenomena like these occur, there are always doubters and deniers trying to explain them away, the insistent maniac who is too aware of the truth to be able to compromise with it is always proved right, sometimes not without martyrdom, but here the most important issue is left unanswered. Will the pilot ever again be admitted to fly? Many questions are discussed at length and answered, but this only important one is carelessly and irrationally neglected.
The story is this. A passenger airplane pilot sees an elderly lady as a passenger he has never seen before but recognizes her and gets confused for not being able to place her. In the confusion in charge of the plane he suddenly becomes another person and almost crashes the plane. When he wakes up at the hospital he still believes he is a crashed war pilot of world war one. Of course, this creates a problem, especially since he doesn't even recognize the girl he is going to marry.
The whole rest of the film is only discussions, so it gets monotonous, but Ann Harding as the elderly lady makes a fascinating performance - she commands every scene she appears in, and it's actually her case the whole story is about.
It becomes something like a metaphysical detective story. The doctor's explanation of the phenomenon is that it's all about telepathy. All doubters are of course, like always, eventually proved stupid and wrong.
Phenomena like these occur, there are always doubters and deniers trying to explain them away, the insistent maniac who is too aware of the truth to be able to compromise with it is always proved right, sometimes not without martyrdom, but here the most important issue is left unanswered. Will the pilot ever again be admitted to fly? Many questions are discussed at length and answered, but this only important one is carelessly and irrationally neglected.
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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