Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
Acting
Bogart's weary charisma elevating cardboard dialogue.
Production
Genuine post-war military aircraft pornography.
Director
Stuart Heisler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film features real Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars, making it a time capsule of early jet aviation that aviation nerds still screenshot obsessively.
Released the same year as the Korean War's start, the film's gung-ho military-corporate partnership reads very differently knowing what came next.
US
