Night Flight (1933 film)

Night Flight also known as Dark to Dawn is a 1933 American PreCode aviation drama film produced by David O. Selznick and distributed by MetroGoldwynMayer and directed by Clarence Brown. The film stars John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy.

Determined to make the night flight program work, Rivire has sent pilot Jules Fabian Clark Gable and his wireless operator on another dangerous flight. The pair are caught in a torrential rain storm and when Madame Fabian Helen Hayes comes to the headquarters, she realizes that her husband is overdue. The two airmen, flying blind over the ocean, run out of fuel and choose to jump but are drowned.Rivire refuses to quit and orders a Brazilian pilot William Gargan to take the mail to Rio, but the pilots wife Myrna Loy pleads with him not to go. Despite the dangers, the night mail is delivered on time. The pilot despairs that his flight only meant that someone in Paris can get a postcard on Tuesday instead of Thursday, but its real value is proven when the serum is also delivered and a child is saved. ........

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