Starring Ralph Bellamy, Tala Birell, Wiley Post, Douglass Dumbrille, Robert

Allen

Directed by Albert S. Rogell



Print: black/white

Runtime: 68 min.

Genre: action

Print Quality: B



Filmed a few months before and playing in theatres when Wiley Post and

Will Rogers were killed in a plane crash in Point Barrow, Alaska in August,

1935: Barry Eldon is the owner of an airline company that is competing

with a rival company for a lucrative air-mail contract with the government.

While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barry's line,

the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray-machine that

will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power

and crash. Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldon's line

before he, aided by Renee Dupont, can find out what is causing his

airplanes to crash. (Wiley Post flys through on a cross-country

stratosphere flight.)