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The Crowded Sky (1960)Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision. Director:Joseph Pevney |
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Dick Barnett
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| Rhonda Fleming | ... |
Cheryl Heath
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| Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | ... |
Dale Heath
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| John Kerr | ... |
Mike Rule
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| Anne Francis | ... |
Kitty Foster
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| Keenan Wynn | ... |
Nick Hyland
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| Troy Donahue | ... |
McVey
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| Joe Mantell | ... |
Louis Capelli
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| Patsy Kelly | ... |
Gertrude Ross
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Donald May | ... |
Norm Coster
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Louis Quinn | ... |
Sidney Schreiber
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Ed Kemmer | ... |
Caesar
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Tom Gilson | ... |
Rob Fermi
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Hollis Irving | ... |
Beatrice Wiley
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Paul Genge | ... |
Samuel N. Poole
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An navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks we learn about the personal problems of the pilots and most of the crew. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!Certificate:
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EnglishRelease Date:
2 September 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Pánico en el aire See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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(uncredited)
From "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played at the wedding
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Did You Know?
Trivia
In this film, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. plays a military jet pilot who crashes his plane into the commercial DC-6 piloted by Dana Andrews. About a decade and a half later, Andrews would return the favor as his character's private plane crashed into Zimbalist's commercial jet in Airport 1975 (1974). See more »Goofs
The jet Dale Heath is flying is marked with the bright orange nose and tail markings. Aircraft marked in this way are test aircraft and usually controlled by NASA. See more »Quotes
Cheryl Heath: I just love banana splits. Is it all the wonderful mixed-up flavors, or is it something Freudian?See more »
Soundtracks
Wedding March(uncredited)
From "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played at the wedding
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And it isn't until all the necessary back stories are told that we get to the crux of the matter--the fact that an airliner and a two-man jet plane are on a collision course. DANA ANDREWS is the tense pilot at the controls of the airliner and EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR. is in the small plane with TROY DONAHUE.
Unfortunately, none of the back stories are really interesting enough to invoke anything more than moderate interest, but at least we get to see ANNE FRANCIS as an attractive stewardess saddled with some bad dialogue and a lifeless romance with JOHN KERR.
The story only gets into high gear late in the proceedings and by that time you'll notice that the storytelling technique is the same one used to even lesser advantage in THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY.
Summing up: Nothing special but worth a look as an example of what eventually led to all those Airport movies of the '70s.
Trivia note: A diner scene with Troy Donahue and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. has the juke box playing "The Theme from A Summer Place," Donahue's hit film from the year before.