Night Plane from Chungking

Overview

Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 31, 1943

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Paramount,Paramount Pictures

Cast

Robert Preston,Victor Sen Yung,Soo Yong,Ernst Deutsch,Ellen Drew,Tamara Geva,Steven Geray,Allen Jung,Otto Kruger

Director

Ralph Murphy

Writer

Sidney Biddell,Harry Hervey,Earl Fenton,Theodore Reeves,Lester Cole

Producer

Walter MacEwen,Michael Kraike

Cinematography

Theodor Sparkuhl

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0035125