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Stunt Pilot (1939)

Stunt Pilot (1939)

Crime Adventure

MEN WITH WINGS and hearts without fear!

Release Date: 1939, June 30
Directors: George Waggner
Countries: United States of America
Production: Monogram Pictures
Cast: Ray Turner, George Meeker, David Newell, Marjorie Reynolds, Jason Robards Sr., Jack Hendricks, John Daheim, Carleton Young, Wally West, Forrest Taylor, Jack Kirk, Charles Morton

Overview:

The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.