Pilot #5 (1943)
Be There When It Happens!
71 min
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
- Release date
- June 24, 1943
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Franchot Tone as Lieutenant George Braynor Collins
- Marsha Hunt as Freddie
- Gene Kelly as Vito S. Alessandro
- Van Johnson as Everett Arnold
- Alan Baxter as Winston Davis
- Dick Simmons as Henry Willoughby Claven
- Steven Geray as Major Eichel
- Howard Freeman as Hank Durban
- Frank Puglia as Nikola
- William Tannen as American Soldier
Crew
- George Sidney · Director
- David Hertz · Writer
- B.P. Fineman · Producer
- Lennie Hayton · Composer
- Paul Vogel · Cinematographer
- George White · Editor