Night Plane from Chungking

Night Plane from Chungking

Original Spanish film poster
Directed by Ralph Murphy
Produced by Michael Kraike
Walter MacEwen
Written by Lester Cole
Earl Fenton
Theodore Reeves
Sidney Biddell (adaptation)
Harry Hervey (story)
Starring Robert Preston
Ellen Drew
Otto Kruger
Stephen Geray
Cinematography Theodor Sparkuhl
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Running time
 69 min
Country United States
Language English

Night Plane from Chungking (1943) is an American war film released by Paramount Pictures, and is a remake of Paramount's earlier film Shanghai Express (1932).

The film was directed by Ralph Murphy, and produced by Michael Kraike and Walter MacEwen from a screenplay by Lester Cole, Earl Fenton and Theodore Reeves, adapted by Sidney Biddell from the story by Harry Hervey. The film stars Robert Preston and Ellen Drew, with Otto Kruger and Stephen Geray.

Plot

A truck carrying passengers on a road to India is bombed by the Japanese during their invasion of China, due to the carelessness of one of the passengers, Albert Pasavy.

The wounded are flown to a secret air field. Among those met by U.S. pilot Nick Stanton are a beautiful Red Cross nurse, Ann Richards, and her traveling companion, Madame Wu, who is on a secret diplomatic mission. There is also Countess Olga, who is caught spying.

Nick and his co-pilot, Captain Po, try to fly them out, but the plane needs to make an emergency landing in a jungle. Olga is killed. Stanton learns that the spy was trying to get top-secret information to her superior.

Another of the passengers, Rev. Van der Linden, goes missing, but returns with food from a monastery. The reverend leads everyone on a long hike to the monastery, only to reveal there that he is a Nazi collaborator working with the Japanese. He demands to know where Olga is, not knowing she is dead.

Pasavy betrays the others, but is coldly shot. It is up to Nick to kill the Nazi and get Ann, Madame Wu and Po to safety.

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