The Crack-Up

An offbeat, weird film in which Donlevy is a crackerjack test pilot who receives a bribe from an airport worker to steal the plans of the experimental DOX plane. Donlevy works against the spy ring by escaping in another experimental transcontinental plane, the "Wild Goose," an enormous craft not unlike the legendary "Spruce Goose+" later designed and barely flown by Howard Hughes. On board is Morgan, the plane's designer, a copilot, Beck, and the airport's cretinous mascot, Lorre, who has spent much of the first reel running around like a wide-eyed idiot, blowing a bugle. A fierce storm forces the plane down into the sea, and as it begins to sink, Lorre suddenly re...