Bombay Clipper | |
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Directed by | John Rawlins |
Written by | Roy Chanslor Stanley Rubin |
Produced by | Marshall Grant |
Starring |
William Gargan Maria Montez |
Cinematography | Stanley Cortez |
Edited by | Otto Ludwig |
Music by | H. J. Salter |
Production company | |
Distributed by | UniversalPictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 mins |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Bombay Clipper is a 1942 aviation drama film directed by John Rawlins and starring William Gargan and Irene Hervey. The film features Maria Montez in an early role. Turhan Bey also appears. [1] [2]
The film was based on the exploits of oceanic flyers, flying for Pan American World Airways. [3] [4]
Foreign correspondent Jim Montgomery ( William Gargan) agrees to quit his job when his fiancée Frankie ( Irene Hervey) threatens to return home to San Francisco without him, tired of his profession always coming first. He remains in Bombay, India for one more assignment, investigating a report of missing jewels, valued at four million dollars. A mysterious man called Chundra ( Turhan Bey) continues to observe him.
With the case still unsolved, Jim and Frankie board a flying boat to Manila, unaware that the gems are aboard. A passenger is mysteriously killed, but not before the jewels are hidden in Frankie's case. George Lewis ( Lloyd Corrigan), another passenger, admits to being a courier for the diamonds, saying they are meant to be a gift to a foreign dignitary. Lewis, too, is then killed.
Montgomery encounters the culprit and is in danger of being thrown from the aircraft, but he is rescued by Chundra, who is actually a government agent. Frankie can not blame Jim this time for being in a hurry to get back to work and report the story.
Universal announced the film in February 1941. [5] Stanley Rubin and Roy Chanslor started writing the script in April. [6]
Filming on Bombay Clipper started in June 1941. [7] Much of the movie was shot on a set made to simulate the Boeing Clipper's interior. [N 1]
The Los Angeles Times called the film an "excellent melodrama." [8]
Aviation film historian James M. Farmer in Celluloid Wings: The Impact of Movies on Aviation (1984), indicated that Bombay Clipper was "Low-minded mystery fare." [9] In Aviation in the Cinema (1985), aviation film historian Stephen Pendo considered Bombay Clipper, a "routine" drama that pits reporter, detective and spies against each in solving a murder mystery on a flight across the Pacific Ocean. [10]
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