External links
- Sky Liner at IMDb
- Sky Liner at the TCM Movie Database
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| Sky Liner | |
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| Directed by | William Berke (as Wm. Berke) |
| Screenplay by | Maurice Tombragel |
| Produced by | William Stephens (as Wm. Stephens) |
| Starring | Richard Travis Pamela Blake Rochelle Hudson |
| Cinematography | Carl Berger |
| Edited by | Edward Mann |
| Music by | Raoul Kraushaar |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Screen Guild Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 61 minutes 49 minutes (DVD) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sky Liner is a 1949 American film noir action crime film directed by William Berke. It was released on the bottom half of double bills. [1] [2]
The film follows a selection of passengers on a long distance overnight flight on a silver Lockheed Constellation with Trans World Airlines, through a series of vignettes looking at the passengers and crew. Characters range from a precocious child star (intended to echo Shirley Temple) to businessmen and criminals.
An FBI man (Richard Travis) and a stewardess (Pamela Blake) solve a spy murder on the crowded airliner after a dead man is found in the lavatory. All passengers are suspects. They discover the victim has been stabbed by a fountain pen containing Curare poison.
Filming started 25 April 1949 at Hal Roach's studios. It was described as "a kind of Grand Hotel of an airliner." [3]
It was made by the same writing-directing-producing team that had done Highway 13 . [4]
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