When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
Practical Effects
Miniature planes on wires that somehow still thrill.
Costume
Rhonda Fleming's 'Charro' wardrobe: cheating never looked so Technicolor.
Production
Split-screen anxiety before it was a cliché.
Director
Joseph Pevney
Dana Andrews
Dick Barnett
Rhonda Fleming
Cheryl 'Charro' Heath
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Dale Heath
John Kerr
Mike Rule
Anne Francis
Kitty Foster
Keenan Wynn
Nick Hyland
Troy Donahue
McVey
Joe Mantell
Louis Capelli
Patsy Kelly
Gertrude Ross
Donald May
Norm Coster
Louis Quinn
Sidney Schreiber
Ed Kemmer
Caesar (as Edward Kemmer)
Tom Gilson
Rob Fermi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The novel's author Hank Searls later wrote the Jaws sequel novelization, proving he had a thing for transport-based terror.
This was Joseph Pevney's passion project after directing Shatner-era Star Trek episodes — note the same sweaty close-up technique.
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