Five Came Back (1939)
Four must die! One must choose!
75 min
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
- Release date
- June 23, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $225,000
Trailer
Cast
- Chester Morris as Bill
- Lucille Ball as Peggy Nolan
- Wendy Barrie as Alice Melhorne
- John Carradine as Crimp
- Allen Jenkins as Pete
- Joseph Calleia as Vasquez
- C. Aubrey Smith as Prof. Henry Spengler
- Kent Taylor as Joe Brooks
- Patric Knowles as Judson Ellis
- Elisabeth Risdon as Martha Spengler
Crew
- John Farrow · Director
- Jerome Cady · Writer
- Dalton Trumbo · Writer
- Nathanael West · Writer
- Richard Carroll · Writer
- Robert Sisk · Producer
- Roy Webb · Composer
- Nicholas Musuraca · Cinematographer
- Harry Marker · Editor