Colonel Gimpy heads a spy organization trying to get the plans for a new airplane. Test pilot Ace Martin agrees to help.Colonel Gimpy heads a spy organization trying to get the plans for a new airplane. Test pilot Ace Martin agrees to help.Colonel Gimpy heads a spy organization trying to get the plans for a new airplane. Test pilot Ace Martin agrees to help.
Howard Hickman
- Major White
- (as Howard C. Hickman)
Lynn Bari
- Office Worker
- (uncredited)
Madge Bellamy
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Bunky, Office Boy
- (uncredited)
Gary Breckner
- Announcer in Recording Room
- (uncredited)
Don Brodie
- Cameraman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe poem quoted by Colonel Gimpy aboard the plane is from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron.
- Quotes
Colonel Gimpy: Good morning.
Operative #77: Good morning, Baron. I didn't know you were in America.
Colonel Gimpy: I've been here many months. I came over here on a very important mission. So important that if I fail, they would expect me to...
[mimics shooting himself]
Colonel Gimpy: ..."resign".
[smiles]
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This could have been a lot better.
This B-movie includes spies, murder and a thief trying to sell blueprints to a fancy new airplane....all things that sounds really exciting. Then HOW did the filmmakers drop the ball like they did and create a dud??
The story begins just before a new cross-Atlantic airliner is tested. Into the ceremony comes Colonel Gimpy (Peter Lorre) with some of the most amazing over-acting I've ever seen. Apparently, everyone at the airplane factory things he's a harmless old crank...little do they know that he's a spy seeking to steal the airplane with the help of the pilot, Ace Martin (Brian Donlevy). But the plan does NOT go as everyone expects and it leads to an overly long and bizarre ending which makes no sense....none at all.
What you have here is a B-movie made by a top studio (Twentieth Century-Fox). It has excellent production values, excellent acting (even Lorre's overacting) but what it doesn't have is a good script. It's a shame, as I like old aviation pictures...but this one really suffers from a script that goes no where in the second half of the film. How disappointing.
The story begins just before a new cross-Atlantic airliner is tested. Into the ceremony comes Colonel Gimpy (Peter Lorre) with some of the most amazing over-acting I've ever seen. Apparently, everyone at the airplane factory things he's a harmless old crank...little do they know that he's a spy seeking to steal the airplane with the help of the pilot, Ace Martin (Brian Donlevy). But the plan does NOT go as everyone expects and it leads to an overly long and bizarre ending which makes no sense....none at all.
What you have here is a B-movie made by a top studio (Twentieth Century-Fox). It has excellent production values, excellent acting (even Lorre's overacting) but what it doesn't have is a good script. It's a shame, as I like old aviation pictures...but this one really suffers from a script that goes no where in the second half of the film. How disappointing.
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- planktonrules
- Jul 3, 2018
Details
- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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