Night Flight

MGM selected the popular Saint-Exupery story for this film in hopes of creating another GRAND HOTEL or DINNER AT EIGHT, loading the cast with superstars, but it missed. Still, NIGHT FLIGHT is full of gritty excitement and offers some splendid though splintered performances by Hayes, Gable, Loy, Montgomery, and the inimitable Barrymore brothers in their fifth and last film together. John Barrymore is the driving, rigid head of a South American airline who insists that the mail contracts be upheld at any cost, including the lives of his pilots. He demands that they fly through bad weather and, especially, navigate their rickety crates at night over the dangerous Ande...