Flight Into Nowhere

Airline manager Jack Holt fires Dick Purcell from his job as a pilot because he can't follow orders. Then boss's daughter Julie Bishop -- whom Jack loves -- tells him she and Purcell are secretly married. So Holt rehires Purcell, who promises to obey orders. When the airline gets a job to survey the vaste Amazonian jungle for landing sites, Purcell steals the designated pilot's plane to garner glory for himself. Ordered to turn back for lack of fuel, he ignores the orders and disappears. So Holt leads an expedition to try and find the dope.

If you've yearned to see Holt looking like a Wally Wood cartoon from Mad Magazine, in the khaki shorts and wearing a pith helmet, five hundred miles from civilization and six miles from the nearest Howard Johnson's, this is the movie for you. In terms of story, it's like someone took a serial and cut it down to five reels, with head-hunting natives, doctors being held against their wills to help out savages, and, of course, Jack Holt being stalwart. Plus Lotus Long as a native girl, Fritz Leiber as her father, Robert Fiske as the bushy-bearded medico, and Ward Bond as a radio operator.