When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smuggling gang whom he double-crossed on a previous trip. So begins a day of chilling suspense, as he and other crew members find themselves embroiled in a desperate race to get out of the country alive!
Acting
Mickey Rooney playing sweaty desperation like his rent depended on it.
Production
Beirut location shooting captures a city that no longer exists.
Director
Peter Bezencenet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lex Barker was five years removed from his final Tarzan film; this was his Euro-grindhouse pivot phase.
Shot in pre-civil war Beirut, the film accidentally documents a cosmopolitan Mediterranean city about to be erased.
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