Forced Landing (film)

Forced Landing is a 1941 action film directed by Gordon Wiles and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film recounts the exploits of a pilot in Mosaque, an imaginary country in the midst of turmoil.Forced Landing stars Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther and Evelyn Brent.

Colonel Golas releases Dan from prison when he learns that his fiance had nearly been run down by a car and Dan had come to her rescue. The bargain he makes with Dan is that the stranger has to resign from the military and take a job with the Mosaque Civil Airline. Golas has an ulterior motive for helping Dan, as he has been responsible for the airline being sabotaged on its last flights to bring payrolls to workers at the local fort. Unknown to him, Dans pilot friend Petchnikoff Harold Goodwin lost his life in a crash engineered by Golas. Johanna, accompanied by Dan, flies to the fort to visit her sick father Victor Varconi, only to find the disgruntled and penniless workers there are set to revolt.Dan promises to have their pay flown to the workers within three days. When he spots his friends aircraft on the ground, after landing and searching for Petchnikoff, Dan and Johanna are captured by Andros Banshek J. Carrol Naish, a bandit who has been working against the government in Mosaque. Banshek is sure the two would reveal his hideout unless they are silenced. When Bansheks son Nando Bobby Dillon is shot during their attempt to escape, Banshek implores Dan to fly his son to a doctor. While Nando is saved, Banshek is captured in Mosaque and killed by the police. ........

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