Non-Stop New York

Director: Robert Stevenson Robert Stevenson

Overview

While W.C. Fields poked fun at the asinine notion of a high-speed airplane with an open observation deck in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), the producers of the futuristic British melodrama Non-Stop New York (1937) take this notion quite seriously. The film's setpiece is a streamlined luxury plane designed for transatlantic passenger flight (something that would not become a common occurrence until 1940). Anna Lee plays a chorus girl whose has been targeted for extermination by the London underworld because she can provide an alibi for a murder suspect. The police won't believe her, but that doesn't dissuade the syndicated hit men. Seeking escape, Lee stows away on a plane bound for New York; the gangsters follow, overpower the pilots, and parachute from the plane, leaving Lee and the passengers helplessly hurtling through the clouds. The day is saved by detective John Loder, who'd also boarded the plane in search of Lee. The climax involves an aerial fistfight on the wing of the speeding plane. If you believe this sequence, chances are you'll swallow whole the rest of Non-Stop New York: if not, you'll have a grand old time all the same. The script by (among others) Curt Siodmak and Roland Pertwee was based on Sky Steward, a novel by Ken Attiwill.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/05/2002
UPC:	0644827228522
Original Release:	1937
Source:	Reel Vault
Language:	English
Sales rank:	41,594

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Anna Lee	Jennie Carr
John Loder	Inspector Jim Grant
Francis L. Sullivan	Hugo Brant
Frank Cellier	Sam Pryor
Desmond Tester	Arnold James
William Dewhurst	Mortimer
James Pirrie	Billy Cowper
Drusilla Wills	Ma Carr
Jerry Verno	Steward
Athene Seyler	Aunt Veronica
Ellen Pollock	Miss Harvey,(uncredited)
Arthur Goullet	Henry Abel
Peter Bull	Spurgeon
Tony Quinn	Harrigan
Danny Green	Gangster
Athol Fleming	Actor,(uncredited)
Bryan Herbert	Gangster
Tom Scott	(uncredited)
Sam Wilkinson	Sailor
Alf Goddard	Warder at Holloway Gaol
Andrea Malandrinos	Actor,Waiter
H.G. Stoker	Captain
Phyllis Morris	Actor
Jack Lester	(uncredited)
Hal Walters	Porter
Albert Chevalier	(uncredited)
Edward Ryan	Actor,(uncredited)
Roy Smith	(uncredited)
Billy Watts	(uncredited)
Frederick Piper	Barman
Percy Parsons	American Judge
Alexander Sarner	(uncredited)

Technical Credits

Michael Balcon	Producer
Robert Stevenson	Director