Chester Morris
Bill Brooks
Search results
Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball.
Five Came Back: Directed by John Farrow. With Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine. A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
- (2.4K)
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- John Farrow
- 1939-06-23
Co-pilot Joe (Kent Taylor) visits marshal Crimp (John Carradine) and his charge Vasquez (Joseph Calleia), gangster Pete (Allen Jenkins) with his boss's son (Casey Johnson) and Peggy (Lucille Ball) with pilot Bill (Chester Morris), en route to Panama in John Farrow's Five Came Back, 1939.
- John Farrow, Argyle Nelson, Sam Ruman
- Chester Morris
Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack.
In this 1939 drama, nine passengers from all walks of life and a crew of three take off from Los Angeles, bound for Panama City, but a sudden storm blows them off course and causes the plane to...
- (144)
- John Farrow
- Adventure, Drama
- Chester Morris
People also ask
Is five came back a movie?
When was five came back remade?
Did John Farrow make a 'B' movie?
What did Frank Nugent say about five came back?
Five Came Back (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, that stars Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West.
