Emergency Landing (1941 film)

Emergency Landing aka Robot Pilot is a 1941 American aviation spyfi romantic screwball comedy film directed by William Beaudine. The film stars Forrest Tucker in his second film and in his first leading role with costars Carol Hughes and Evelyn Brent. Emergency Landing features lots of mismatched stock footage of various types of aircraft.

Meanwhile, the two enemy agents hijack a new Lambertdesigned bomber being tested at Lambert Field. When the bomber crashes nearby with one agent I. Stanford Jolley surviving, he makes his way to Doc and Jerrys house, pretending he has been in an automobile accident. When Doc and Jerry learn the truth, the agent hijacks Docs aircraft with the two girls as hostages. Docs aircraft, however, has the remote control device installed that now works and Doc and Jerry are able to land the aircraft and capture the agent. The real Judge Gildersleeve Billy Curtis, a midget, appears and fines the girls. NotePrincipal photography for Emergency Landing took place from late March to early April 1941.After a stint in Great Britain, director William One Shot Beaudine returned to America in 1937 but had trouble reestablishing himself at the major studios. After working at Warner Brothers, Beaudine found work on Poverty Row, working for studios specializing in lowbudget films, such as Monogram Pictures and Producers Releasing Corporation. Beaudine became a specialist in comedies, thrillers and melodramas making dozens for these studios. By the 1940s, Beaudine had a reputation for being a resourceful, nononsense director who could make feature films in a matter of days, sometimes as few as five. ........

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