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The Great Plane Robbery: Directed by Lewis D. Collins. With Jack Holt, Stanley Fields, Vickie Lester, Noel Madison. When heavily-insured gangster Frankie Toller is released from prison, Mike Henderson is assigned by the insurance company to make sure Toller's policy expires before he does.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Lewis D. Collins
- 1940-12-09
The Great Plane Robbery (aka The Great Plane Robber) is a 1940 crime-adventure B film directed by Lewis D. Collins. Collins was more often associated with directing serials for Universal and Columbia Pictures. [1] It stars Jack Holt, Stanley Fields and Noel Madison.
When gang leader Joe Colson (Noel Madison) is released from prison, the Consolidated Life Insurance Company fears that he will be murdered before his policy expires in ninety days, and assigns private detective Mike Henderson (Jack Holt) to protect him.
The disappearance of the plane causes a national sensation, and the next morning, while listening to the radio, the gang learns that an insurance company detective was on the missing plane, and they assume that the detective must be terrified salesman Homer Pringle.
The plane leaves Chicago, and while most of the passengers are sleeping, a passenger named Middleton is strangled in his seat. When the stewardesses discover Middleton's body in the wardrobe compartment, two men named Murray and Carter brandish guns and begin to rob all of the passengers.
- Edward L. Cahn
- 1950-03-10
- Action, Crime, Drama
- 61
The Great Plane Robbery (aka The Great Plane Robber) is a 1940 crime-adventure B film directed by Lewis D. Collins. Collins was more often associated with directing serials for Universal and Columbia Pictures. It stars Jack Holt, Stanley Fields and Noel Madison.
The Great Plane Robbery. Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
- Adventure, Crime, Drama
