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Crop-duster pilot Jonas Bailey (John Ireland)ends his romance with Irie Lee (Mari Blanchard) and, on the rebound and because she is sure Jonas will fight for her, Iris marries Buck Lavonne (Robert Middleton), the wealthy owner of a fleet of crop-dusting airplanes. Her plan backfires when Jonas and his friend "Swede' (Jackie Coogan) take off to find work further north. Forced down on a small airport strip near Holtsville,. they find Roy Dillon (Douglas Henderson)drunk in the field's hangar. Lynn (Gail Russell), his wife, tells them that Dillon will lose a contract with Buck if the local fields are not dusted. She hopes they will stay on,. and tells them about a local doctor named Carter (James Macklin)who may be able to save "Swede's"eyesight, damaged when he rescued Jonas during a plane accident. Iris lures one of her husband's henchmen, Chick (Bill Ward) into telling her where Jonas has gone and she leaves to find him. Buck, in a jealous rage, kills Chick and starts out in pursuit of... Written by
Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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Art work for cast cards was usually prepared and set before editing had been completed. This often resulted in the scenes for cast-credit players (as seen on the film) ending up on the cutting-room floor.
This film ( if anything with the name of Albert C. Gannaway attached to it can be called a film)is a prime example of missing faces/characters. Whitey Hughes, Bill Blatty, John Carpenter and Bill Coontz are all-credited on the film credits, but do not show up in the finished film. Or, at least, do not show up in the film as the characters credited. Hughes, Coontz and Carpenter are visible in the film, but only as uncredited stunt men, and not as the characters billed on the cast list.
The film itself is just a swipe from Paramount's "Wild Harvest" with crop-dusters and airplanes subbed for men-and-machine wheat harvesters.
Gannaway often made directors Robert Horner, Denver Dixon (Victor Adamson) and Ed Wood look like masters of the directing craft.