Flight to Nowhere (1946) CRIME THRILLER

[@livyloolooloo6833]

I am 28 and have been obsessed with old movies like these(and older ones) since I was 13 when I first saw them. I have nobody to talk to about them. Like or reply if you can relate. 😢 I'll be your old movie buddy.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.

[@livyloolooloo6833]

@@PizzaFLIX thank you for posting all these!❤❤❤

[@kansasross]

I have seen every western ever made. I grew up in Los Angeles where we lived near the Rivoli theater. They changed the bill twice a week They showed two westerns, two cartoons and a shortL a two reeler, always in black and white. These usually were comedies but sometimes a short about some sporting event. These shorts featured players who had started out in vaudeville. Because vaude- ville had died, they and their talents hadn't died, and they just moved on into short movies. You can see them today as the Three Stooges, The Ritz Brothers, Leon Errol, Edgar Kennedy. Finding these will lead you to finding others. You can also start our with "Tanks a Million," about a young man with a photographic memory who gets drafted into the army, and the old-fashioned sergeant can't stand his brill- iance. and is out to get him, but is always outwitted. Two more of these were made and likely you can find them, You can also look on youtube by keying Films [e-mail] of the 1930s or 1940s, Here are some you will like: "The Purple Plain;" "Roman Holiday." It may have been blocked so search for "Vacanzia Romano," still in english. Another is Alec Guiness's first picture, "The Card," about a young man who wants to rise above the class he was born into. It is much fun. If you want to know more, my email address is hidden in the text above. Try it and one day, if I can locate it, I will send to you the best awful, terrible inforgettable movie ever made, with an all-star cast, with every movie cliche imbedded in it and with the greatest twist ending in all the millions of, I am Ross Murphy, in Kansas, movies ever made The audience didn't see it; the critics missed it, the writer missed it; the actors didn't realize it and neither did the director. But once you have had it shown to you, you will realize you have witnessed true greatness in a Hollywood production. Yes, unforgettable.

[@hilaryc3203]

I met a person on here who shared my enthusiasm for old movies, and for that era. I've lost count of the years now, 4 or 5, but we watch an old movie together here twice a week and then chat about it. You'll find a friend as well.

[@peggyhill7283]

I am now 62. I can remember sitting in old movie houses with my Dad watching these old movies. He turned me on to these movies of "The Golden Age of Hollywood." I simply can't get enough of them. My father is 91 & still with us. We love talking about these old movies still.

[@Beverly361961]

I love these old flicks makes me wish I could live back in those times.

[@scottw5315]

Well dressed, well groomed, well spoken used to be the standard. I go back in a heartbeat.

[@iankings6405]

Some of these old actors and actresses are long gone, it's fascinating to be able to see them again in their prime, truly imotalised. What a gift for the families and the generations to follow.

[@nedludd7622]

All of them if you mean 1946.

[@claudettedelphis6476]

Another delightful noir treasure. Thank you. Just love it 💅💕🌸

[@rhodajulyan9059]

These movies are still wonderful and bring back such good memories...I.am 74...thank you

[@jimvanbrocklin2060]

I'm 72 and like you I love the older movies.

[@tdc1012]

Jim Vanbrocklin I am 52 and I love these old movies also!!!!!!! 👍👍😁

[@d.e.b.b5788]

63 here; I spend many weekend afternoons and evenings watching the old movies on the off network channels when I was a kid. Love 'em.

[@nedludd7622]

So what does your age have to do with the price of tea in China? For me, I am just 73.

[@tonycanaris6521]

I m 63 and love these old great plot story movies.

[@monicamarino2122]

Very good movie 🍿 ! Kept me guessing, who was the bad Person . Thank you so much for the gift of the classics .

[@davidbrown-xk8zl]

This film was shot in and around Las Vegas and Death Valley Ca. These films,shot on location,without sound stages,are great to enjoy because they are more realistic.Real sunshine,real moonlight,real breezes,etc.Fake scenery is so obvious and intelligence insulting.

[@sheristewart3940]

That's about all this picture has going for it, IMHO.

[@peggyhill7283]

Thank you soooo much Pizza Fix!!!! 🌻🌻🌻

[@buttegowda]

Very good movie. QUick turn of events, damn good editing and very good dialogues. Worth watching.

[@oldgysgt]

Did anyone notice Sheriff Bradley in Death Valley? It was Hoot Gibson. Hoot Gibson was one of the 1920s' most popular children's matinee heroes. Gibson was a pioneering cowboy star of silent and early talking Westerns. By the time he was in this picture Hoot was down on his luck and was taking any acting job he could find. In 1979, 17 years after his death from cancer, Hoot was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

[@jonhohensee3258]

The acting is MAGNIFICENT!

[@kahlesjf]

The fight scenes are a joke.

[@briandelion49]

Magnificent? Maybe I'll believe if I have some of what you're smoking! 😄

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@briandelion49 MAGNIFICENT!

[@briananderson2452]

Furnace Creek Inn! Was a bartender at the pool for 2 winters back in the late 90's. That place is spectacular and so is everything around it.

[@homebrewer7]

These old flicks are great for a 84 old man.

[@mikedrown2721]

I'm 74

[@monicamarino2122]

I am 61 and I love 💗 them as well

[@nedludd7622]

Who cares about your age? I am just an old geezer at 73.

[@savedforh]

Yeah but try some latest movies too see how much has been done to make entertainment more engaging

[@beegee1960]

One thing I find interesting about these old movies is that I often have never heard of the main actors but recognize several of the supporting cast. For example in this movie Hoot Gibson was on the bottom of a long list of supporting actors. Hoot Gibson! And although never a leading star, he did become famous and a household name.

[@TheDonz1943]

Wasn't Hoot Gibson a Cowboy?

[@austfirst4140]

Also have you noticed in these old movies the Female Actors seem to be very attractive naturally. Did they use more makeup them days or less than nowadays?. I think they look more natural in their facial features then than Girls nowadays.

[@cgtarga1]

Chick flick.

[@r_1901]

@@austfirst4140, nowadays generations are born with different tastes.

[@chirellealanalooney7895]

Now I know exactly who that handsome hunk Alan Curtis reminds me of, it's Guy Williams, who played Zorro.

[@leelarson107]

'That handsome hunk Alan Curtis' was also married and divorced 7 (seven) times in rapid succession. That should tell you something.

[@sandrakennedy3527]

My top 10 fav movie.along with Million dollar weekend. Thanks.

[@sandrakennedy3527]

This movie is one of my top 10 fav movies.

[@Billys-Joint]

The Blob is in there too.

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

I like these old 'B' movies. The acting is not great, the plots are not too good. The dialogue is OK at best. The directing and production are second rate. But, they're still entertaining. The scenery and lack of complicated 21st century nonsense make fora great escape! Thanks for sharing.

[@Baskerville22]

Hoot Gibson in a minor role. A pioneering cowboy star of silent and early talking Westerns, Hoot Gibson was one of the 1920s' most popular children's matinée heroes. In his real life, however, he had a rather painful rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags career, a problem that seemed to plague a number of big stars who fell victim to their high profile and wound up living too high on the hog.

[@fhuber7507]

Still common for people getting high pay to overspend and end up broke. The average $multimillion$ a year football player will end up broke. The average lotto winner is either dead or broke within 5 years.

[@r_1901]

Well, you don't hear about them unless they're dead or broke.

[@thadisbostock3196]

I love old movies especially crime thrillers and mysteries! Try children taught when they come over and see their children watching them with me. Thanks!

[@sherrycambridge1531]

budabooda u a ckkooka

[@JC-gw3yo]

Twists and turns of a great little movie with a dash of romance

[@chuffpup]

Nice clothes. I just like looking at all the cool stuff they had, sunglasses, hats, cars, planes. Everything was so well made and from good materials, even the furniture. Theres a great chair out on the patio.. I would love to go back in a time machine, and fill a container with things. I might even try some their booze, and smoke a cigarette. 😉

[@livyloolooloo6833]

I agree 100%. I am getting my own place soon. I would fill it up with the oldies but goodies if I could. I'm planning on going to a antique shop.

[@robertcruice1801]

the coolest thing about that time is that the women seam so nice well dressed etc. if i could go back i would do so for the women

[@APRAPR-nq2wn]

and you can smoke that cigarette any damn where you please !

[@marzannaplaska9092]

Robert Cruice exactly, compared to todays green haired blobs with all kinds of metal hooked into their face,,,

[@howardkerr8174]

@Mebrice Depace Not to rain on your parade, but while clothes may or may not have been better made back then, I imagine they had at least one drawback: they were easily stained and some/most stains were difficult to remove. What we don't see in these movies is how uncomfortable clothes were back then, a fair amount of (scratchy) wool was used back then in clothing construction as well as cotton that shrank "at the drop of a hat". I am nearly 70 years old and I remember that women wore a lot of dresses that were of somber colors, unless it was a very special gown, and men wore even more seriously colored clothing than today because to wear "flashy" colored clothing would result in a man acquiring a reputation for being a criminal, or at least the type of man that a woman's parents would tell her to avoid. As far as cars...or planes, look and listen to the details. The steps for entering the plane looked like afterthoughts and the doors on the car closed with a cheapish clunk instead of an expensive thud. I will 101% agree on the furniture, tho.

[@SuperIliad]

Flight to Nowhere, released 1 October 1946 (USA). Alan Curtis as Hobe Carrington; Evelyn Ankers; Catherine Forrest; Micheline Cheirel as Dolly Lorraine - aka Countess Maria de Fresca; Jack Holt as FBI Agent Bob Donovan; Jerome Cowan as Gerald Porter; John Craven as Claude Forrest; Inez Cooper as Irene Allison; Roland Varno as James Van Bush; Michael Visaroff as Joseph Herman Ruehl; Gordon Richards as Tom Walker; Hoot Gibson as Sheriff Bradley; Donald Kerr, Ruehl's Stablehand.

[@gregwork49]

I wonder how experienced the director was when he filmed this. Once we arrive at the hotel, every sequence is bracketed by entrances and exits. The actors are just walking on and off, and they don't look like they've been anywhere or have anywhere to go. Editors and directors didn't have much autonomy working on the typical B movie production, especially at the lower end of the scale, and cutting those awkward moves out may not have been an option . The studios controlled costs with rigid shooting scripts and formulaic editing styles. When a studio made a movie like "Flight to Nowhere" they knew what the maximum box office potential was, almost to the dollar, and the creativity that went into the making of the film was spent on building in the profit margin. Still, I enjoy watching the smaller movies from the 50's. A better brand of escapism can't be found.

[@sheristewart3940]

The script was just awful, too! SPOILER ALERT Hobe Carrington is amazed to discover the next day, after being bonked on the head the night before, that the map he stole from the Countess was stolen from him. What did he think, someone bonked him on the head for nothing?

[@maunsell24]

Another example of cost cutting: at the end of the film, after it has crashed and burned, killing the hero's ex-wife, the aircraft magically reappears without a scratch bearing the same serial number, NC19933.

[@MsMojoworks]

Wool Suits and Tie perfect for 100 degree weather!

[@twinkle3026]

JAMES MOTOMAL: That was real witty! LoL! xx

[@richardmcleod5967]

Evelyn Ankers and Jerome Cowan always turned in great performances.

[@dupman1]

The writing is excellent and the acting makes the movie. I enjoy the new one's with all the special effects and CGI, but nothing like actors acting. Anyway, it was an age of entertainment I greatly appreciate. Thanks.

[@jimlaguardia8185]

When America was still a free nation.

[@MerleOberon]

Great scenes at The Last Frontier, the first resort/casino on the Vegas strip, it was located just north of where Circus Circus is. It burned down in 1960.

[@DessieTots]

An Oscar was awarded for “Ridiculously Large Female Hats”. The black hat was fashioned from a snow plow blade.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

5:00 👒

[@robbybonfire9944]

I can't decide between Evelyn Ankers and Inez Cooper - what a happy choice.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Los Angeles City Hall , that building shows up in every thing.

[@remicastrejon3373]

really wonderfull 1940's movie, clothes perfectly tailored and yes this plane is so fantasticly streamlined it's a lockeed 12A junior electra and as a Frenchman i can hear a strong french accent as mine from the brunette of this movie!

[@KNT.63]

1:10 some of the 🚗s,,were so cool 😎back then,retro Gangsta style.

[@hemantsave8076]

Used to matenee's in the 70's these give a certain pleasure.

[@sandrakennedy3527]

One of my fav movies. Top 10.

[@ejr5480]

I stayed at that hotel, the Furnace Creek Inn. Real nice. Its closed now for good.

[@Getouttahere78]

Nice 👍🏻 One problem though, the plane in the beginning is exactly the same one at the end 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jeremybear573]

Thanks again Pizza Flix!

[@howardgreen887]

City Hall at the start ....great Art-Deco. Architect was from Lancashire.

[@twinkle3026]

Greetings from The UK! Great film! Thank you! I was kept guessing all the way through the film! Mind you, i did think there was summat real dodgy about 'The Countess' from the very start! LoL! xxxx

[@magpiewithagamingpc1516]

It's bizarre thinking Inez Cooper was my great aunt.

[@robbybonfire9944]

I LOVE Inez Cooper. What a stunning, charming woman.

[@lloydblake8847]

53:55 scene. He's looking 90 degrees past her! Was he reading the script? Were they even in the same shot? Weird.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

It looks like he was photoshopped in.🤨

[@lesterbiggins3772]

Loved it x

[@larrycarmody8325]

I flew a D18 Twin Beach, that had the cargo door, it was for American Aviation out of Flint MI. back in the 1960's, hauling freight for Chevrolet & Ford assembly planets, mostly during change over when they were very busy changing models. The twin Beach had those radial engines on them, which eat up about 25gallons an hour each, they held 350gallons giving us about 6hours of flight time which is 4.5 hours, the alternate plus 45 minutes, all legal.

[@lavendardust]

Aww. I liked that countess with her cute little accent.

[@robbybonfire9944]

Fine actor, Jerome Cowan, he could have and should have been a leading man.

[@jaysoper3974]

what a bunch've thieves & back-stabbers & some not very attractive dames in this way out tale

[@mangiafrani]

So much music. Poor Music Director, Louis Adrian .Non stop for the first 44 mins. of the film.

[@mikebtrfld1705]

Say, what's the big idea? Why I oughta..

[@Kayaz48]

Mike Btrfld Hahahaha! Perfect.

[@acmarston]

Say Mac, what's that crack supposed to mean?

[@VintageVera]

What's your favorite b&w movie?" Mine's Sunset Boulevard. And I like anything with Mantan Moreland in it.

[@TheMickeymental]

The car in Sunset was a Isotta-Fraschini it is in a museum now. That was a fine movie. For Sci-Fi it would be The Thing from a Another World 1951 with Ken Tobey, Margaret Sheridan and James Arness' first role as the Thing and a little person taking the part at the end. Western-Winchester 73 I do not like Jimmy Stewart but Millard Mitchell as as his partner and Steve McNally stole the movie. Look for Rock Hudson playing an American-Indian Young Bull. Will Geer was Wyatt Earp which I found out he was openly gay, fooled me. Tony Curtis in his first role, John Mc Intyre as and Indian trader and Dan Duryea as an oversexed outlaw. I highly recommend this. The most bizarre B&W is Eraserhed by David Lynch. I had to watch it three times over a period of six months to understand it. Very little dialog and one of Lynch's most bizarre, it took five years to complete because of funding, but the actors always returned. There was sadness after the movie with main character played by Jack Nance. He had married Jerry Van Dyke's daughter Nancy Kelly who had become a porn actress who ended her own life and Jack Nance was killed in an altercation in Pasadena. The interview with David Lynch is interesting and he is truly a most unusual person. He did crime movie with a twist at the end called Surveillance and I highly recommend this movie.

[@scottmckague7526]

Topper returns is a funny film humor ,mystery and mantan Moreland is in it.

[@peggyhill7283]

Yep! That's a good one! "I'm ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille. Best line after; "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" Nothin' like the greats!!!

[@acmarston]

Have you seen King of The Zombies?

[@VintageVera]

@@acmarston it's a real fav along with the Charlie Chan ones he's in

[@manuelmaldonadojr2526]

thank you very much for this old movie take care.

[@HappyAgainandagain]

Why are you so kind?

[@robbybonfire9944]

I love this movie and I don't care how many people hate it.

[@janetebanks5493]

who in their right mind could hate a film noir? no one!

[@normlake5858]

If I watched this movie 3X I might understand the plot better. Might be the best B movie ever made.

[@fhuber7507]

End... His new plane has the same number as the old one....

[@lorenzoceron6895]

F Huber :

[@robbybonfire9944]

He kept the number because it was his lucky number. He was superstitious in that respect. It is a different airplane, you can tell by the angle of the wings and the upgraded landing gear.

[@windshear33]

Yep, movie should have been called the magic plane.

[@seti48]

Wish those old movies didn't have that syrupy music.

[@Riker-ER]

I’d would have paid the violinist to give it a rest‼️

[@angelacoleman6580]

They treat that pilot like crap.

[@mikenewton474]

Jack Holt was also in this one, but he had more of a leading role.

[@kindredspirit3875]

"mm, that reminds me , I got to call Martel!". just looking at legs -gotta love it!

[@patrooney2283]

Thanks for a good movie!!

[@robbybonfire9944]

Alan Curtis = the Clark Gable look alike stand in.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Good Movie & plot...but Helllloo!, don't forget to check that wild horse stall ! There's a body inside ... and its her brother!

[@LuteFrontier]

One ticket to Nowhere

[@howardgreen887]

What is Miles Archer doing on that plane?

[@TheMickeymental]

I have never been able to find The Tall Target, Dick Powell or International House, W.C. Fields for a reasonable price. It looks like Amazon has the latter now for $11.99 plus shipping was $40 in a bundle and The former for 10.66 I have waited for about ten years. WGN in Chicago would play International House every New Years.

[@darlingsapphire1]

THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THIS MOVIE IS THE CONTINUOUS BACKGROUND MUSIC OR SOUND EFFECTS OF NOTHING, OTHERWISE THE MOVIE WOULD BE GREAT.

[@candacegladden5313]

That was a fine one the leading man stayed on his back and the other in the water lol thanks for posting

[@madderhat5852]

Haven't any of these people heard of head trauma or hotel safe deposits?

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

No.

[@billiewilson5197]

Good movie. ,,🎭 👍🏾

[@glenncollins4778]

Better times indeed

[@windshear33]

The magic plane, quickly rebuilt after a fatal crash and fire.

[@PizzaFLIX]

it's a magic plane!

[@master-kq3nw]

very good movie

[@billmcdonald9115]

Great movie and who-dunit plot. Must have been a tight budget. The hero's plane was crashed and burned 3/4 of the way through the movie...but gosh oh gee ..same plane is used in beginning and end...same wing numbers. Nice shots of the Inn at Death Valley in the 40's. US Patriotism against the red terror of the 50's atomic age is starting to surface with this little film.

[@fesbahn]

evelyn was so hot in the Rathbone/Bruce "Pearl of Death" and "Voice of Terror"

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in October 1946.

[@TigerDominic-uh1dv]

I Felt Sorry For The Man Getting Hit On The Head. Good Movie 🎬 😊

[@allenschmitz9644]

If they had cell phones back then they would be selling COBALT maps.

[@fjp3305]

I thought the plane had crashed, but then we see it again at the end.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

No we don't.

[@fjp3305]

@@scarygary-qq1pj I'll have to watch it again

[@kahlesjf]

Continuity issue involving scenes starting at 58:20 to 59:10. They walk away from the table, down some stairs, then look over at the same table they just left.

[@normayoung1681]

Like you have always loved the old movies mysteries were my favorite. If you like time travel love stories watch portrait Jennie

[@arieswaters]

I want to sleep this is pretty horrible. But you can still enjoy it if you're in the right frame of mind but pretty horrible

[@chirellealanalooney7895]

I really liked this movie alot, and that airplane was absolutely gorgeous, a real beauty of the time, and sexy looking too!!! And I have to say that Alan Curtis was definitely one heck of a gorgeous and sexy looking hunk of a man.

[@pujabelgian]

Furnace Creek, 30 yrs later.. hot hot hot. Very cool.

[@rockinroller59]

Ive decided already, BOTH!

[@axavidesign1670]

11.46 that looks a weird way to put on an oxygen mask

[@simonf8902]

Is that a Lockheed Lodestar ?

[@katie195]

Great old flick - but the sound track is overbearing .... my head hurts...

[@angelacoleman6580]

"you open your yap once more and I will close it for you"😂

[@MsMojoworks]

Well that’s the end of that tuxedo!

[@fonziebulldog5786]

Nowhere is always somewhere and by that it isnt just anyware.

[@sherrycambridge1531]

pleezfercheez restate

[@nanettecormier8513]

A movie without a hero. A letter as a character. This script needs a good rewrite. Too bad because it had its moments that were potentially James Bond!

[@kahlesjf]

"A letter as a character"...Good call.

[@maximoo79]

Dude looks like a cross between Brad Pitt and Robin Thicke 😂

[@rockyhill9965]

A watchable movie, but that fake punch at 1:12:30 says LOW BUDGET ALL THE WAY! The music is not by 1st call composers but it is very appropriate music for that era. Kind of film-noir mixed with serial action scores.

[@chirellealanalooney7895]

Oh by the way, what ever happened to Alan Curtis?

[@robbybonfire9944]

Alan died in 1953, just seven years after this film was made. By the way, while it is quite subtle, the music score is wonderful!

[@lamwen03]

Of course he did not offer her a cigarette. Women of class did not smoke in public.

[@Firebrand55]

Have you noticed.....in film after film......never failing........any case carried by an actor is......empty. You can always tell.

[@shortfuze5685]

Music in the old films were always over dramatic for the scenes they were applied to.

[@observantowl5568]

At least they aren't amp'd up to a level of 100 db like todays films are. Today they use the loud, abrupt sound levels to make up for the their lack of substance.

[@Songwriter376]

Observant Owl Absolutely agree.

[@Countess88]

What a god-awful black hat that the Countess is wearing.

[@ThePattibeth]

I'll take one of those cars pleeze , any one.