Non Stop New York

NonStop New York aka Libson Clipper Mystery is a 1937 British crime film and science fiction film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring John Loder, Anna Lee and Francis L. Sullivan. N It is based on the novel Sky Steward by Ken Attiwill. A woman who can clear an innocent man of the charge of murder is pursued by gangsters onto a luxurious transatlantic flying boat.

Just then, Hugo Brant Francis L. Sullivan, Billys gangster employer, and his men barge in. They make Jennie leave. When Billy admits that he is quitting, Brant shoots him dead. To get rid of loose ends, Hugo sends Harrigan aboard the ocean liner bound for Southampton with Jennie. He frames Jennie for robbery.Meanwhile, Abel, who was caught by the building watchman as he tried to sneak out, is tried and sentenced to death for Coopers murder. The woman he insists can exonerate him is in HM Prison Holloway, unaware of his plight. Hugo and gang member Mortimer travel to England to deal with Jennie. ........

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