Chain Lightning (film)

Chain Lightning is a 1950 American aviation film based on the story These Many Years by blacklisted writer Lester Cole under the pseudonym J. Redmond Prior the screenplay was written by Liam OBrien and Vincent B. Evans. During World War II, Evans had been the bombardier on the Boeing B17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle.

Brennan is offered a job at the Willis Aircraft Company as chief test pilot for an experimental high speed jet fighter known as the JA3, designed by Carl Troxell Richard Whorf. Troxell is also a link to Brennans past, having known him in the war when Brennan was a bomber pilot. A flashback to B17 missions over Germany reveal Brennan to be a topnotch pilot.Another connection to his past is his former flame, Jo Holloway Eleanor Parker, now Willis secretary. In order to prove the capabilities of the new JA3, capable of speeds up to 1,400mph 2,300kmh, Brennan convinces Willis that a recordbreaking flight from Nome, Alaska to Washington D.C., via the North Pole, will impress the government. At the same time, Troxell tries to develop a safer version of the revolutionary aircraft, the JA4, equipped with an escape pod, but dies during a test flight. ........

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