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Five Came Back
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| Directed by | John Farrow |
| Produced by | Robert Sisk |
| Written by | Richard Carroll (story) Jerome Cady Dalton Trumbo Nathanael West |
| Starring | Chester Morris Lucille Ball |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Editing by | Harry Marker |
| Distributed by | RKO |
| Release date(s) | June 23, 1939 |
| Running time | 73 min. |
| Language | English |
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Five Came Back is a 1939 disaster film, which predated many of the more famous air disaster films, such as Airport. The film starred Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, and John Carradine and was directed by John Farrow. Renowned film noir cinematographer Nick Musuraca served as director of photography, bringing a noir feel to the disaster drama. Despite a relatively low budget for the time, the RKO release became a major hit for the studio.
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Twelve passengers on a commercial flight to South America are stranded in the jungle when the airplane encounters a hurricane and is forced to crash land. Knowing that the area is inhabited by cannibalistic natives and dangerous animals, the pilots and passengers race to repair the plane and clear a runway. However, low fuel levels limit the number of people that can escape to five. As the plane is repaired, the question becomes who of the twelve gets to live or die?
Chester Morris as Bill Larnigan
Lucille Ball as Peggy Nolan
Wendy Barrie as Alice Melhorn
John Carradine as Mr. Robert Crimp
Allen Jenkins as Pete
Joseph Calleia as Castro de Vasquez
C. Aubrey Smith as Prof. Henry Spengler
Kent Taylor as Joe Brooks, the Co-Pilot
Patric Knowles as Judson Ellis
Elisabeth Risdon as Martha Spengler
Casey Johnson as Tommy Mulvaney
Dick Hogan as Larry, the Steward
Remade in 1956 as Back From Eternity
This film was an inspiration for the Star Trek first-season episode "The Galileo Seven."
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