Night Plane from Chungking
“A Nation's Fate Flies by Night on a Secret Mission!”
1943•NR•1h 9m•6.5•Released
ActionDramaRomance
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
Director
Ralph Murphy
Writer
Earl Fenton, Theodore Reeves, Lester Cole, Sidney Biddell, Harry Hervey
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Robert Preston
Nick Stanton
Ellen Drew
Ann Richards
Otto Kruger
Albert Pasavy
Steven Geray
Reverend Ven Der Lieden
Tamara Geva
Olga Karagin
Soo Yong
Madame Wu
Victor Sen Yung
Captain Po
Ernst Deutsch
Major Brissac
Allen Jung
Lieutenant Tang
Production
Company
Paramount Pictures
Producer
Michael Kraike
Producer
Walter MacEwen
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