Night Plane from Chungking (1943)
A Nation's Fate Flies by Night on a Secret Mission!
69 min
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.
- Release date
- May 31, 1943
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Robert Preston as Capt. Nick Stanton
- Ellen Drew as Ann Richards
- Otto Kruger as Albert Pasavy
- Steven Geray as Rev. Dr. Ven Der Lieden
- Tamara Geva as Countess Olga Karagin
- Soo Yong as Madame Wu
- Victor Sen Yung as Captain Po
- Ernst Deutsch as Major Brissac
- Allen Jung as Lieutenant Tang
- John Bleifer as Japanese Sentry
Crew
- Ralph Murphy · Director
- Earl Fenton · Writer
- Theodore Reeves · Writer
- Lester Cole · Writer
- Sidney Biddell · Writer
- Michael Kraike · Producer
- Walter MacEwen · Producer
- Gerard Carbonara · Composer
- Theodor Sparkuhl · Cinematographer
- Ellsworth Hoagland · Editor