Murder in the Clouds

Murder in the Clouds is a 1934 American action film dealing with aviation. The film stars Lyle Talbot and Ann Dvorak, and is directed by D. Ross Lederman. Although standard formula B film fare, it was notable as the screenplay and original story was written by Dore Schary as a freelance writer, during one of his periods when he was fired from a more prestigious film job. Schary was a director, writer, producer and playwright who later became head of production at MetroGoldwynMayer, and eventually president of the studio. Equally important on Murder in the Clouds was the work of Elmer Dyer who had become a preeminent aviation cinematographer.

When Brownell Henry ONeill gives Lackey an urgent assignment from the U.S. government, Lackey chooses Bob and Judys brother, Tom Robert Light to secretly fly Clement Williams Edward McWade and a cylinder containing a revolutionary explosive he has invented, to Washington, D.C., guarded by government agents. Jason Arthur Pierson, a spy working as Lackeys assistant, alerts Taggart Russell Hicks, the ringleader, about the flight.While waiting in his regular bar, Bob is provoked into a fight with three men and knocked out. Another pilot, George Wexley Gordon Westcott, offers to fly with Tom. Over the lower Sierras, the airliner explodes. ........

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