Flight into Danger

Flight into Danger is a 1956 Canadian television film starring James Doohan N, Corinne Conley, Kate Reid, Zachary Scott and Philip Gilbert. The 60minute teleplay was written by Arthur Hailey, produced and screened by CBC Television, and broadcast on April 3, 1956, on the General Motors Theatre series.

Playwright Hailey, a former British pilot in the Second World War, immigrated to Canada in 1947. He began working as a sales promotion manager for a tractortrailer manufacturer in Toronto. On a flight between Vancouver and Toronto in 1955, he came up with the original idea that spawned Flight into Danger. The story of an airliner whose passengers and crew were threatened by an unforeseen event such as food poisoning was written in only nine days and shopped about as a screenplay. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, barely four years old, bought the script for 600.The production acquired the cockpit of a Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF Canadair North Star and had it shipped by road to RCAF Station Trenton, where the filming took place, including aerial shots. The Malton Airport at Malton, Ontario, a town near Toronto, was also used for the airport scenes. ........

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