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6.5/10
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After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.
Rico Alaniz
- Latin Official
- (uncredited)
Tol Avery
- Thomas J. Malone
- (uncredited)
Dan Bernaducci
- Bartender in Panama
- (uncredited)
James Burke
- Grimsby, Airline Manager
- (uncredited)
Charles Campbell
- Dealer
- (uncredited)
Tristram Coffin
- Paul, Rena's 'Patron'
- (uncredited)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaMovie debut of Barbara Eden.
- GoofsRena is told she will be driven to L.A. to catch a plane to South America. Thomas Malone meets his son at this Los Angeles airport then drives away; a stranger following him. Yet the next day's newspaper report of his death states that he was found near Detroit's Municipal Airport after driving from the airfield.
- Quotes
Jud Ellis: We're engaged, Louise. We'd a been married if this thing hadn't happened. Now, we, only a short time left.
Louise Melhorn: Please leave me alone.
Jud Ellis: Why should I? You're my girl!
Louise Melhorn: Don't Jud. Please, stop it!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The James Dean Story (1957)
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This might be considered a B movie, but it is in a word very entertaining. The cast of different characters and portrayals of those roles are very well done. The movie sets you up for what is about to happen and then plunges you full throttle into the story. It is every bit as entertaining and full of drama as the later Airport movies of the 1970's. In fact, in many ways this is much better. It is very fun to see Jesse White in a role other than the Maytag repair man. The same can be said for actors Fred Clark, Jon Provost, Gene Barry and the rest who were more famous for other roles. You have to love Rod Steiger's character. He is definitely the most interesting in the movie. It is a nice little movie in character studies and how they deal with a forced landing in a jungle clearing with a cannibal tribe nearby. This movie stacks up to the airport and other flight disaster movies quite well. I first saw this as a teenager and I never forgot it, especially when the decision had to be made to see who stayed behind and especially who made the decision. For this being a B movie it is still very first rate and gets an A in viewing pleasure.
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- Also known as
- Affair in Portofino
- Filming locations
- Burbank, California, USA(The supposed New York airport control tower shown near the beginning of the film is actually that of the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California, USA)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,500,000
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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