I flew to America on a Constellation in 1950; K.LM. , Hamburg-Amsterdam-London, and then to cross the Atlantic; Shannon, Ireland to Gander, Newfoundland and finally, New York. One engine quit over the ocean and we had to return to Amsterdam for repairs. I remember the four blades of that propeller standing still. I was 8 years old and wasn’t worried. There were 3 more motors, after all. It was a beautiful plane and K.L.M. was very proud of it. The stewardess gave me a bunch of flyers and photos of the plane that I treasured throughout my childhood.
I really enjoyed watching this film. A good plot on this amazing aircraft which I have the privilege to see flying on an airshow only a few years ago at a RAF base here in the UK. The aircraft had USAF markings on it. Certainly a wonderful aircraft in its time in civilian and military operation. I am a former serviceman in the RAF and I enjoy watching these vintage aircraft still flying today. Thanks for sharing this.
I really enjoyed seeing almost an hour of the most beautiful gal to ever fly, the Lockheed Constellation...Connie. I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, from 1971-75, and in an aviation squadron. We had one of these beautiful planes but it was the longer version the Super Constellation. Hearing those radial engines roar to life was music to my ears.
Yes! One of the world's greatest sights and sounds: those 18-cyl. engines (also the ones on the B-29s) roaring into life. The smoke was just awesome. Breitling, a German/Swiss-owned Connie travels the world somewhat regularly. It has the most beautiful paint job.
I flew one of these in 1955 from LA to Cleveland by way of Chicago's Midway during a summer thunder storm. Can't remember much detail, but the seats were huge, the Barf Bags were very prominent, the meals generous, the engines seemed to always on fire, the noise was awesome, the 'up and down' was scary, they gave us kids Wings which I wish I still had. Arriving Cleveland was a major culture shock. Dad had gone a separate flight to Detroit and bought a 1955 Buick Century and then met us in Ohio.
On April 1st, 1966, I emigrated to Canada on a KLM flight from Amsterdam in on of the last Lockheed Constellations. It's wonderful to see this beautifull propellor flying miracle in action, inside and out. It brings back the feeling of the flight in my life. I was 19 years old at that time. Thanks a lot! Regards, Martin Duisterwinkel.
martinefdee martinefdee 1 second ago On April 1st, 1966, I emigrated to Canada on a KLM flight from Amsterdam in on of the last Lockheed Constellations. It's wonderful to see this beautifull propellor flying miracle in action, inside and out. It brings back the feeling of the very first flight in my life. I was 19 years old at that time. Thanks a lot! Regards, Martin Duisterwinkel.
As a fan of Glenn Miller Band's version of 'Skyliner' and a fan of the classic Skyliner convertible cars, this movie is an excellent addition to my Skyliner collection. Thank you for sharing this enjoyable film CCC. 😎👍
These old movies are a rare and valuable look into our past. The "Connie", was one of the most beautiful and iconic aircraft ever produced. It's signature tri- dorsal fins were actually a compromise design; in the early year of post WWII aviation many airports lacked hangers tall enough to accommodate the huge tails that some airplanes had thus requiring maintenance be done on the tarmac or flightline. The Connie obviated that and fit well into existing facilities.
@@marbleman52 Thanks, you were so lucky to have seen a working variation of that aircraft. I did tour a static display at an airport museum on the east coast- I forget where now, but it was a passenger configuration and was tight seating, but still... Tin Can sailor, '69- '73. Plane guarded carriers off the coast of 'Nam as well as fire support up in Quang- Tri province. What a show seeing an F-4 coming aboard; twin J97's screaming just 100 feet overhead- hook down, wheels down flaps down- all down. Naval Aviators, the best in the world.
@@BeachsideHank ...Yes, I am glad that I chose our four A-3's to be a Plane Captain for. The squadron also had four A-4 Skyhawks, two F-4 Phantoms ( they look like they are doing 400 miles an hour just sitting there..!! ), and one of the Super Constellations that started this whole conversation. Our squadron was an electronics counter-measures squadron. During war exercises, the squadron trained the fleet how to recognize and counter the enemy's electronic jamming and other electronic stuff. Our F-4's had a radar in the nose that was an electronic copy of a Russian missile that had been captured and reverse engineered. It was Top Secret and anytime the nose was opened up for the techs to work on it, it was covered up. All of us had at least a secret clearance because of the counter-measures equipment that all of the jets carried in one form or another, but we still weren't allowed to go into the Electronics shop where the actual radar was often sitting on a bench unless you had the Top Secret clearance. The Super Connie had a tall radome sticking up from on top of the fuselage and it also had a big round radome underneath. There are pictures on YT of this configuration and even a few of our own Connie in flight. So, we had a good variety of jets and that made working on the 'Line' even more exciting than just having a bunch of just one jet.
There had been a triple-fin predecessor to the "Constellation" in the shape of the Douglas 'DC-4E', but the fins on that aircraft looked angular and ugly (the unwanted 'DC-4E' prototype was later sold to Japan where they considered building long-range bombers based on it ).
I was four when this came out, and living in Sao Paulo , Brazil at that time. I used watch "Connies" landing at the airport from our hillside home. I even got a little peddle-around airplane to ride around in while these planes landed and took off. I fell in love with flying because of this. Of all the real airplanes I've flown since, gliders are my favorite. Parachuting is quite nice as well. And hot-air balloons are the hardest, but an experience well-treasured. I see by some of these other comments that the Constellation is a main "star" of this film! And, man-o-man, that guy at the safe cracking scene sure left enough fingerprints, eh? Watch him around the eleven minute area...
I flew on the Conti in 1959 and 1962 between New York and Paris. I sat on the pilots lap so I could hold the controls while over the ocean when I was 8. I remember the drone of the engines and seeing flames coming out of the exhaust. What a beautiful plane.
The Lockheed Constellation plane was a nice beautiful bird. When I was eight yrs old in 1959 me and my family flew on a Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation plane from San Juan, PR. to Miami, Florida, it was a nice ride.
Hai friends ! Good morning to all ! Happy Sunday !! We are forming in one group !we are enjoying our classes with joy and laugh! Even though we have no possibility to see one another we are in one group ! So I love my dear friends! I am enjoying these classes with you friends ! Thanks CCC for this !
Hey Allen you're right none of us have the possibility of seeing each other but we're still good friends 😊 I just saw this movie I was a little late I just looked at it for a few minutes looks like a good I will watch it tomorrow anyway hope you had a blessed happy Wayne
@@wayneramquist367 !! Thank you for your kind words !tonight we have no live chat I think ! 18th only we have our class ! U r my good friend ! I like your good behaviour Wayne!! Once again I am saying thank you to you !! Have a bright day Wayne !!
@@pmullins1495 They were larger than modern ones. I never flew in a Connie. I did fly in DC6 and DC7. Interesting note old timers at TWA would say "Lady With a Baby" if they had to get buy you. The baby was the bucket from the lavatory in the old days.
My dad flew, I think, on a Lockheed Constellation from Chicago to New York in the 1950s. He was always afraid of flying, which was made worse by the fact that the Constellation he was flying on developed engine trouble in one of its engines and had to fly on three.
Not so much. Gene Roddenberry was on a Connie, one engine failed, then another caught on fire. They crashed in the Syrian desert. He was one of the only 9 survivors.
In 1949 when I was two years old I flew with my uncle round trip from Los Angeles to Detroit aboard a TWA Constellation. He was an executive with TWA at the time, later transferred to PanAm to head the Australian division. There was a Constellation at the training school at Camarillo (California) airport a few years ago, saw it fly once. Haters aside (you know who you are) it was often regarded as the most beautiful airplane ever flown. I met a guy in Glendale, California, who purchased an old house that contained thousand of old drawings and sketches, one was an authenticated blue print for a Constellation, wish I’d bought it. The Air Force version was the C-121, saw one at Hickam AFB when I was stationed there in late ‘60’s, belonged to some general.
...Ahh yes...a great combination...that beautiful "Super Connie" with a wonderful mystery noir...perfect!! I love these old movies! Takes me back to growing up in the 50's & 60's...
What a excellent drama.Long before transistorised radios there was crystal radio sets that used mainly short wave and had to have a long areal ( antenna)
One of the Constellations shown in this movie, "Star of Cairo," replaced one with the same name that crashed on approach to Shannon Ireland during a flight from Karachi to New York in 1946. It was the first fatal commercial aviation accident in Ireland and the first fatal accident for the Constellation. Both seem to be Model 049s, the first variant into commercial service.
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@@johnbockelie3899 You still can get all of those things but, as everything else on this Earth of ours, for a price; in those day a plane ticket was EXPENSIVE so please do not complain so much and enjoy.
7:11 That stew is extremely pretty! I remember in the old days, some of the requirements of being a flight stewardess are " Must be Attractive with Pleasing Personality " !
All I asked for was a bag of peanuts, and instead what I got was hassled by a Soviet agent and an air marshal, and they even took my passport. TWA is worse than Jet Blue.
Very good film actually. Full of intrigue and suspense. 1:41 It was just small scene about the secretary reminding the judge about time, but it shows women think in the present whereby we men dream all the time. 2:27 And they have keen sense of observation.
It's impossible to shoot movie scenes in a Constellation cockpit. Because it is very, very narrow and small. In the movie it looks like a cockpit of a 747. It shocked a bit. But the film is excellent. I'd rather say than the Connie is the most beautiful liner ever built...you can see my Connie on this channel.
That might have been old LAX wish the background was better. TWA ramp was next to AA and by Mike Lyman. That was the Mike Lyman's Flight Deck sign in the background
Per IMDB, two TWA 'Connies' were used in filming, named 'Star Of France' and 'Star Of Cairo'. Research reveals that 'Cairo' flew with TWA 1946-62 and was scrapped in 1964. 'Star Of France' had a worse fate. Operating for Paradise Airlines, it crashed in a snowstorm while trying to land at Lake Tahoe CA, on March 1, 1964 killing all 85 people aboard.
@@markr.devereux3385 Easy to understand. The British-built De Havilland Comet 1 did have its fatal flaw- metal fatigue- causing two of them to explode mid-flight. They were grounded by 1954. The improved and lengthened Comet 4's had no such problems and were very good jets.
I enjoyed this movie I don't profess to be a expert critic all I know is what I like and I like the 1930s 40s and 50 movies I don't know anything about light and dark lighting and the different aspects of filming a scene this was a pretty good movie to me and I'm at a loss to find out that other people didn't like it I remember those airplanes long years ago and I thought they were beautiful in fact I fell in love with a facsimile or a copy of one at element truck company long years ago but I was never able to purchase that same copy of that plane I thought it was a 1952 it was made into a clock but this is just my opinion I do enjoy all of these movies and I think the uploader so much for taking the trouble to upload these films for our enjoyment I'm get so much enjoyment because I'm bed fast for the most part and I don't get to get out and about to movies nowadays in fact you don't have to get out and about if you have a UA-cam and Netflix that is all
Fairly well written. Amazing that restrooms on aircraft were once big enough for 3 grown men to stand up. In my time in the Navy I was asked to supervise an aviation repair shop that supported a Super Constellation...I declined. I instead worked at a shop that supported Lockheed Electras as modified for the Navy as submarine hunters. Love these prop planes, tho.
As a child, I flew on the "Connie" many times including across the Atlantic. It was a wonderful plane to fly in and I have many happy memories of it as well as being able to sleep on it in an upper berth. I still miss that plane today.
even an inexperienced burglar know you wear gloves when robbing a safe, the guy missed the memo. Back in the day when only the rich traveled by plane, and they all dressed up to do it. I think this movie needs to be viewed twice to figure it out more fully
Not true about only the rich flying. It depended on if the military was in a hurry to get you somewhere. When we left Guam in 1956 we flew in a MATS C-54. After being stuck on Kwajalein Island for two weeks with a bad engine we landed in Hawaii. There we got a MATS flight on a Connie. Next overseas flight was in a Boeing Super Stratocruiser from Newfoundland to Ireland.
Me too! 1961, New York to Cleveland with my Dad. I was 4 years old, it was one of my first memories. Not only that, we took a helicopter from midtown to Idlewild.
I remember my first flight as a kid in the 1960's. You dressed up when you flew back then. The stewardesses passed out small packs of cigarettes to everyone on the plane. I was something like 4 or 5 years old at the time and I got a pack of cigarettes too.
My neighbor told me this movie was called "Eyeliner". I am half an hour into it and getting ready to go back to my father's original mascara. My mother was a competitive weightlifter, and she traveled to matches on TWA Constellations from the mid-1950s to the early '60s. They would put her barbells on opposite sides of the hold. Those were GREAT planes. Someday, somebody ought to do a movie FEATURING CONSTELLATIONS. Now, THAT would be a movie i would watch. But we all know the Jet People have bought off the Big Guys. Or vice versa. That's it, the Big Guys have bought off the Jet People. Or somebody. Howard Hughes is involved, has to be. I'm not changing my eyeliner.
The ending was funny, cute, giggle, with them 2 gossip gals that "wanna gotta know." They say, "we gotta become airline hostesses." Then THE EnD. Good intensity thriller with humor to close off. Good movie.
Too bad we couldn't see the wide expanse of the midwest, the only place you'll find more corn than on board that TWA Connie. I do enjoy these old films and thank you for making this available.
Good movie! and a happy ending! Cool seeing the TWA plane with the roomy seats and a sitting area for conversation, etc. I flew back in that day and I remember it being a very bumpy flight!
I remember a Constellation which survived in Malta as a burger bar, was at least 30 years ago when I last visited on holiday there…. I think it fell into dis-repair and has gone now…. Was a bit of an odd relic I suppose but I always enjoyed seeing it and climbing up the long steps to get on board..
I enjoy watching the beautiful Lockheed Super Constellation (exterior views only; no actual interior views of cabin nor cockpit were shown; only used oversized stage-mockups). Cockpit mockup was missing Flight Engineer station, Navigator & Radio Operator Stations. 😞
Not to be picky, however this one is a Constellation, not the stretched Super Connie. That wouldn't come until 1951. It'd have to be one of the most beautiful planes in the world, right?
what a really great aviation based film,yes it was corny BUT it is good corny i could watch this film again without any problem,so can we please have more of these aviation type movies, thank you, p.s. the connie cockpit that i was in was three times smaller than the one in the film but to get the camera equipment and stuff in i think we can live with it being oversize, so keep them coming C,C,C and we will watch them Regards J,T, at 73 !
This is why I've never fly ✈✈✈ the passengers are always trouble its better to stay on the ground you can avoid All the travelling and live longer flying is still for the Birds 🦅🕊🐦🦉
I was born in the Baldwin Hills part of Los Angeles in 1943. I vaguely remember the old Los Angeles municipal airport, later relocated or expanded towards the ocean. Actor George Meeker worked at the Baldwin Hills liquor store. I saw him many times though I was too young to appreciate his former glory as a movie star. He moved to Carpinteria California and died there in 1984. I moved to Santa Barbara in 1977 and was aware that he was in Carpinteria but never saw or met him there. Around 2007, someone bumped me off my motorcycle on the 101 freeway. I was unhurt and the driver helped me right the motorcycle which I drove home. Unbelievably, I discovered the driver was closely related to George Meeker by marriage. I'm pretty sure George Meeker was the guy with the gun and pencil thin mustache that escaped momentarily from the beautiful super constellation aircraft. How did you like the G-Man testing the point of the lethal pin with his finger? I thought it was a great movie including the ineptitudes sprinkled throughout. They added to the charm.
Flew as a passenger in a Connie from LA to :Phoenix in the summer of '59, too clueless to appreciate it until recently when I watched a long doc on commercial airliners of the 30s to 60s.
And we say social media is nasty! People have always gossiped, they've always made assumptions based on their fear or ignorance. Human nature doesn't change.
Back in the day when flying was a occasion so everyone dressed up in their best. Also imagine toilets as big as that, now you can hardly edge in sideways!
Nice low budget who done it. Tickets on that Constellation must have been very expensive adjusted for inflation compared with today's flights. Imagine, low passenger count, room for a lounge where you could play cards, and washrooms big enough for 3 people. Large, comfortable seats, just two for each row. You could bring a handgun on the plane. I remember flights during the 1960s and early 1970s. Very expensive so that most people didn't fly often. Everyone dressed up. Not like today's flights filled with riffraff dressed in pajamas. We'll never see those days again.
I love seeing things in old films that I am familiar with. The thermostat with the little clock that was outside the telephone booth at the aeroport. we has that in our house whilst growing up. The scripts might be a little weak in some of the old films, but I would rather spend my time watching them than modern day junk. Three men could fit in one wash room, where now one can barely fit in it.
"Teenie Weenie Airlines." The captain of the Connie only had two stripes on his cuffs. The co-pilot had a stripe and a half. Looks like 'wardrobe Dept. ' must've scrounged up a couple of old Navy officer jackets. The captain should displayed four stripes, and his co-pilot three stripes. No TWA insignia on the head gear of any of the crew. I didn't know a single member of the cast. I usually know one or two.
James I noticed that also. Strange because at that time TWA had a publicity department that handled getting TWA into movies. I met the last guy that did it. He had the mockups, seats etcetera in a warehouse. He did not work for TWA any longer but had connections. I helped him go through some old parts and found the sidewall panels he could use.
My husban worked for Pan Am. The pilots uniforms were not authentic. We used to call TWA, Teenie weenie airlines., Air France was Air chance. It was great flying in those days.
@@roseoreillysievers6057 This movie was real low budget. Where did your husband work? I was at Lax with TWA in maintenance. Pan Am had a shack on our lease between our high bay and coast guard ramp.
@@jayreiter268 My husband worked at Kennedy Airport. We were in Taipei. Taiwan Pan Am had a contract for R&R for the GI's. because of the Vietnam War. We were also in Berlin. Flying is not the same anymore.
@@roseoreillysievers6057 We left Japan on Dec 25th, 1966 because PAA had a US Mail contract. With only 14 people on board. Most of which were crew (4) and deadhead crew (4). Moved us up to first class and told us each to take a row of seats on the stretched 707. Deadhead crew went to the rear of the plane for half the flight. Then they shutdown two of the engines once we got to cruising altitude. We landed 30 minutes early at LAX. And you are right, flying isn't the same anymore.
47:58 Impressive training for a G-man: he touches the point of a poison pen with his finger. Always good to double-check to make sure you have the right pen. 🤨🤨
I flew to America on a Constellation in 1950; K.LM. , Hamburg-Amsterdam-London, and then to cross the Atlantic; Shannon, Ireland to Gander, Newfoundland and finally, New York. One engine quit over the ocean and we had to return to Amsterdam for repairs. I remember the four blades of that propeller standing still. I was 8 years old and wasn’t worried. There were 3 more motors, after all. It was a beautiful plane and K.L.M. was very proud of it. The stewardess gave me a bunch of flyers and photos of the plane that I treasured throughout my childhood.
I really enjoyed watching this film. A good plot on this amazing aircraft which I have the privilege to see flying on an airshow only a few years ago at a RAF base here in the UK. The aircraft had USAF markings on it. Certainly a wonderful aircraft in its time in civilian and military operation. I am a former serviceman in the RAF and I enjoy watching these vintage aircraft still flying today. Thanks for sharing this.
Born in 1948 into an Air Force family, this film makes me miss my childhood. Thank you for this wonderful movie!!!
I really enjoyed seeing almost an hour of the most beautiful gal to ever fly, the Lockheed Constellation...Connie. I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, from 1971-75, and in an aviation squadron. We had one of these beautiful planes but it was the longer version the Super Constellation. Hearing those radial engines roar to life was music to my ears.
well spoken marbleman 52
There are still a handful that have been preserved and which can fly occasionally.
Thank you for your service and the history lesson 🙏
That's just your opinion, the Constellation was an old crate and there have been many far greater aircrafts since...
Yes! One of the world's greatest sights and sounds: those 18-cyl. engines (also the ones on the B-29s) roaring into life. The smoke was just awesome. Breitling, a German/Swiss-owned Connie travels the world somewhat regularly. It has the most beautiful paint job.
LOVE Robert Lippert movies! ... largely B, and even C films, but man! .. they are truly Noirs and entertaining! ... Truly tucked-in-bed material!
Lol!! If you're being tugged in bed then you won't e paying much attention to the movie. I think you meant tucked-in.
@@EuroScot2023 oops ... thank you!
I flew one of these in 1955 from LA to Cleveland by way of Chicago's Midway during a summer thunder storm.
Can't remember much detail, but the seats were huge, the Barf Bags were very prominent, the meals generous, the engines seemed to always on fire, the noise was awesome, the 'up and down' was scary, they gave us kids Wings which I wish I still had. Arriving Cleveland was a major culture shock. Dad had gone a separate flight to Detroit and bought a 1955 Buick Century and then met us in Ohio.
On April 1st, 1966, I emigrated to Canada on a KLM flight from Amsterdam in on of the last Lockheed Constellations.
It's wonderful to see this beautifull propellor flying miracle in action, inside and out. It brings back the feeling of the flight in my life. I was 19 years old at that time.
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Martin Duisterwinkel.
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martinefdee
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On April 1st, 1966, I emigrated to Canada on a KLM flight from Amsterdam in on of the last Lockheed Constellations.
It's wonderful to see this beautifull propellor flying miracle in action, inside and out. It brings back the feeling of the very first flight in my life. I was 19 years old at that time.
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Martin Duisterwinkel.
Good story, thanks for sharing.
Oh good move to buy new car direct in Detroit. People sometimes did that and saved a bundle from window price.
PAA gave us Junior Clipper Pilot wings when we flew on them in the 60s.
Traveling seemed so easy then.
40’s my fav decade for movies…..but then again, I very much enjoy the B-52 movies of the 50’s.
As a fan of Glenn Miller Band's version of 'Skyliner' and a fan of the classic Skyliner convertible cars, this movie is an excellent addition to my Skyliner collection. Thank you for sharing this enjoyable film CCC. 😎👍
And I graduated from Skyline High School. Plus MY name is Ekins. Wasn’t sure I would watch this movie, but now I have to.
These old movies are a rare and valuable look into our past. The "Connie", was one of the most beautiful and iconic aircraft ever produced. It's signature tri- dorsal fins were actually a compromise design; in the early year of post WWII aviation many airports lacked hangers tall enough to accommodate the huge tails that some airplanes had thus requiring maintenance be done on the tarmac or flightline. The Connie obviated that and fit well into existing facilities.
BeachsideHank...Excellent history..!!
@@marbleman52 Thanks, you were so lucky to have seen a working variation of that aircraft. I did tour a static display at an airport museum on the east coast- I forget where now, but it was a passenger configuration and was tight seating, but still...
Tin Can sailor, '69- '73. Plane guarded carriers off the coast of 'Nam as well as fire support up in Quang- Tri province. What a show seeing an F-4 coming aboard; twin J97's screaming just 100 feet overhead- hook down, wheels down flaps down- all down. Naval Aviators, the best in the world.
@@BeachsideHank ...Yes, I am glad that I chose our four A-3's to be a Plane Captain for. The squadron also had four A-4 Skyhawks, two F-4 Phantoms ( they look like they are doing 400 miles an hour just sitting there..!! ), and one of the Super Constellations that started this whole conversation. Our squadron was an electronics counter-measures squadron. During war exercises, the squadron trained the fleet how to recognize and counter the enemy's electronic jamming and other electronic stuff. Our F-4's had a radar in the nose that was an electronic copy of a Russian missile that had been captured and reverse engineered. It was Top Secret and anytime the nose was opened up for the techs to work on it, it was covered up. All of us had at least a secret clearance because of the counter-measures equipment that all of the jets carried in one form or another, but we still weren't allowed to go into the Electronics shop where the actual radar was often sitting on a bench unless you had the Top Secret clearance.
The Super Connie had a tall radome sticking up from on top of the fuselage and it also had a big round radome underneath. There are pictures on YT of this configuration and even a few of our own Connie in flight.
So, we had a good variety of jets and that made working on the 'Line' even more exciting than just having a bunch of just one jet.
There had been a triple-fin predecessor to the "Constellation" in the shape of the Douglas 'DC-4E', but the fins on that aircraft looked angular and ugly (the unwanted 'DC-4E' prototype was later sold to Japan where they considered building long-range bombers based on it ).
Not a hanger but a hangar to shelter a plane.
I was four when this came out, and living in Sao Paulo , Brazil at that time. I used watch "Connies" landing at the airport from our hillside home. I even got a little peddle-around airplane to ride around in while these planes landed and took off. I fell in love with flying because of this. Of all the real airplanes I've flown since, gliders are my favorite. Parachuting is quite nice as well. And hot-air balloons are the hardest, but an experience well-treasured. I see by some of these other comments that the Constellation is a main "star" of this film! And, man-o-man, that guy at the safe cracking scene sure left enough fingerprints, eh? Watch him around the eleven minute area...
I flew on the Conti in 1959 and 1962 between New York and Paris. I sat on the pilots lap so I could hold the controls while over the ocean when I was 8. I remember the drone of the engines and seeing flames coming out of the exhaust. What a beautiful plane.
Thanks. Been collecting Rochelle Hudson movies and hadn't found this one yet.
What a cracking film . Acting , plot and subtle direction . Best was the Constellation plane !!. ❤ Thanks for this mini masterpiece . Dave
The Lockheed Constellation plane was a nice beautiful bird. When I was eight yrs old in 1959 me and my family flew on a Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation plane from San Juan, PR. to Miami, Florida, it was a nice ride.
My first plane ride was on Eastern from NYC to Boston. It was in the early 60s. This plane looks familiar but I cant be sure. Loved the flight.
The Lockheed Constellation. I just love the iconic Super Connie. Love the sound of those engines.
Really Enjoy, these type of Movies, Thank You Ever so.
The Constellation was a beautiful plane, designed like a flying fish.
Very small B movie, but nice to watch, thanks.
Hai friends ! Good morning to all ! Happy Sunday !! We are forming in one group !we are enjoying our classes with joy and laugh! Even though we have no possibility to see one another we are in one group ! So I love my dear friends! I am enjoying these classes with you friends ! Thanks CCC for this !
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Hey Allen you're right none of us have the possibility of seeing each other but we're still good friends 😊 I just saw this movie I was a little late I just looked at it for a few minutes looks like a good I will watch it tomorrow anyway hope you had a blessed happy Wayne
@@wayneramquist367 !! Thank you for your kind words !tonight we have no live chat I think ! 18th only we have our class ! U r my good friend ! I like your good behaviour Wayne!! Once again I am saying thank you to you !! Have a bright day Wayne !!
Great movie with the Connie as the star of the show. One of the most beautiful planes ever created.
THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE FIRST TIME WATCHING IT GREAT STORY WITH A GREAT CAST I ALWAYS LOVE B/W CLASSIC OLD FILMS,,THEY ARE GREAT...THANKS..
I have been working in the airline industry for over 25 years. Iam amazed at how simple it was back than to get around airport's and fly.
I remember going to the airport walking up to the counter buying a ticket and getting on the plane. EZ PZ
A delightful oldie.. very enjoyable..
That is the biggest aircraft lavatory I have ever seen.
In reality, its crampt for one person. 😀
@@pmullins1495 They were larger than modern ones. I never flew in a Connie. I did fly in DC6 and DC7. Interesting note old timers at TWA would say "Lady With a Baby" if they had to get buy you. The baby was the bucket from the lavatory in the old days.
@@jayreiter268 Thanks. I'm going to use that line the next time I'm carrying manure to a garden bed.
It even fitted the sound and camera crew in there.
I'm waiting to see how many guys can fit in there.
My dad flew, I think, on a Lockheed Constellation from Chicago to New York in the 1950s. He was always afraid of flying, which was made worse by the fact that the Constellation he was flying on developed engine trouble in one of its engines and had to fly on three.
Eastern Airlines demonstrated the Super Constellation can fly on just 1 engine. Your dad was very safe.
Not so much. Gene Roddenberry was on a Connie, one engine failed, then another caught on fire. They crashed in the Syrian desert. He was one of the only 9 survivors.
The Connie could fly at cruising height on one engine. Wouldn't want to have tried it though.
I must appreciate the way story goes and moreover this is better than any other stories than today's ❤❤
The Golden Days of Crime: No fingerprints, No Security Cameras, No DNA.
No metal detectors
finger prints have been used since the 1880s
those were the days…
One of the passengers has taken ill. And don't call me Shirley !
"That's right, I had the lasagna."
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I was a little confused during the movie but thanks to Blaine he explained it all at the end and got a date too.
In 1949 when I was two years old I flew with my uncle round trip from Los Angeles to Detroit aboard a TWA Constellation. He was an executive with TWA at the time, later transferred to PanAm to head the Australian division. There was a Constellation at the training school at Camarillo (California) airport a few years ago, saw it fly once. Haters aside (you know who you are) it was often regarded as the most beautiful airplane ever flown. I met a guy in Glendale, California, who purchased an old house that contained thousand of old drawings and sketches, one was an authenticated blue print for a Constellation, wish I’d bought it. The Air Force version was the C-121, saw one at Hickam AFB when I was stationed there in late ‘60’s, belonged to some general.
Well I should hope a Constellation could land at Burbank, since that's where they were built! Beautiful airliner!
...Ahh yes...a great combination...that beautiful "Super Connie" with a wonderful mystery noir...perfect!! I love these old movies! Takes me back to growing up in the 50's & 60's...
Best ever decades were the 50’s and 60’s. I wish I could bring back all the people who have passed on.
What a excellent drama.Long before transistorised radios there was crystal radio sets that used mainly short wave and had to have a long areal ( antenna)
I hope I will come to understand just what the relevance of your second sentence is before I die!
One of the Constellations shown in this movie, "Star of Cairo," replaced one with the same name that crashed on approach to Shannon Ireland during a flight from Karachi to New York in 1946. It was the first fatal commercial aviation accident in Ireland and the first fatal accident for the Constellation. Both seem to be Model 049s, the first variant into commercial service.
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Tons of room , leg space, .....not a sardine can with wings. NO PAJAMAS either. A real plane.
@@johnbockelie3899 You still can get all of those things but, as everything else on this Earth of ours, for a price; in those day a plane ticket was EXPENSIVE so please do not complain so much and enjoy.
Great B movie 👍 solid plot great acting I always love the bee pictures Hollywood made they've never let me down
I agree 200% with you.
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Thank you!
7:11 That stew is extremely pretty! I remember in the old days, some of the requirements of being a flight stewardess are " Must be Attractive with Pleasing Personality " !
Include me in! Sounds like people I would like to know and I do love the films.
People who traveled were so elegant back then...How things have changed...
Anyway, great movie thanks 👍👍
All I asked for was a bag of peanuts, and instead what I got was hassled by a Soviet agent and an air marshal, and they even took my passport.
TWA is worse than Jet Blue.
Very good film actually. Full of intrigue and suspense.
1:41 It was just small scene about the secretary reminding the judge about time, but it shows women think in the present whereby we men
dream all the time.
2:27 And they have keen sense of observation.
It's Nostalgic to watch old action movies
The Connie is my favorite plane of all time.
It's impossible to shoot movie scenes in a Constellation cockpit. Because it is very, very narrow and small. In the movie it looks like a cockpit of a 747. It shocked a bit. But the film is excellent. I'd rather say than the Connie is the most beautiful liner ever built...you can see my Connie on this channel.
But her propeller piston engines had a reputation of being unreliable.
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I haven’t heard that
That might have been old LAX wish the background was better. TWA ramp was next to AA and by Mike Lyman. That was the Mike Lyman's Flight Deck sign in the background
Per IMDB, two TWA 'Connies' were used in filming, named 'Star Of France' and 'Star Of Cairo'. Research reveals that 'Cairo' flew with TWA 1946-62 and was scrapped in 1964. 'Star Of France' had a worse fate. Operating for Paradise Airlines, it crashed in a snowstorm while trying to land at Lake Tahoe CA, on March 1, 1964 killing all 85 people aboard.
OMG I'll research that one. How tragic. When I hear Constellation I think of fatal crash I'm not sure why. .maybe I'm confusing it with the Comet.
@@markr.devereux3385 Easy to understand. The British-built De Havilland Comet 1 did have its fatal flaw- metal fatigue- causing two of them to explode mid-flight. They were grounded by 1954. The improved and lengthened Comet 4's had no such problems and were very good jets.
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I knew it was two different planes. You can see the names next to the door.
Never never never takeoff, fly or land in snowstorms !
It's a rule. 😂
This thrifty budget thriller is comically weak. I loved it.
Great old movie! Thanks for posting it!
I enjoyed this movie I don't profess to be a expert critic all I know is what I like and I like the 1930s 40s and 50 movies I don't know anything about light and dark lighting and the different aspects of filming a scene this was a pretty good movie to me and I'm at a loss to find out that other people didn't like it I remember those airplanes long years ago and I thought they were beautiful in fact I fell in love with a facsimile or a copy of one at element truck company long years ago but I was never able to purchase that same copy of that plane I thought it was a 1952 it was made into a clock but this is just my opinion I do enjoy all of these movies and I think the uploader so much for taking the trouble to upload these films for our enjoyment I'm get so much enjoyment because I'm bed fast for the most part and I don't get to get out and about to movies nowadays in fact you don't have to get out and about if you have a UA-cam and Netflix that is all
Fairly well written. Amazing that restrooms on aircraft were once big enough for 3 grown men to stand up.
In my time in the Navy I was asked to supervise an aviation repair shop that supported a Super Constellation...I declined. I instead worked at a shop that supported Lockheed Electras as modified for the Navy as submarine hunters. Love these prop planes, tho.
3 Grown men in the restroom.. But u 4got about the camera man & Director..😂..
@@doolo.13 Three men in one restroom? Must be the YMCA were guys picked up gays
I love classic airplane movies!
so do i floyd! i hope we can get many more?
I hereby christen you Floyd Bridges.
That doesn't mean you can start sniffing glue.
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I might need it
As a child, I flew on the "Connie" many times including across the Atlantic. It was a wonderful plane to fly in and I have many happy memories of it as well as being able to sleep on it in an upper berth. I still miss that plane today.
I think it is one of the best looking passenger liners ever build.
Very interesting. The two little old ladies had the cutesy charm of Helen Hayes of "Airport."
even an inexperienced burglar know you wear gloves when robbing a safe, the guy missed the memo. Back in the day when only the rich traveled by plane, and they all dressed up to do it. I think this movie needs to be viewed twice to figure it out more fully
Howard Hughes owned TWA.
I always see those planes in these old movies.
Back in those days there was no Economy or Business class. Everything was First Class.
Not true about only the rich flying. It depended on if the military was in a hurry to get you somewhere. When we left Guam in 1956 we flew in a MATS C-54. After being stuck on Kwajalein Island for two weeks with a bad engine we landed in Hawaii. There we got a MATS flight on a Connie. Next overseas flight was in a Boeing Super Stratocruiser from Newfoundland to Ireland.
I think once is enough, but thank you!
This was the first airplane i ever flew on. What a thrill. Big and loud. But fun..
Same here, 1955, possibly later 50s LA to Ohio, just can't remember the plane type, but the first trip had many memories....
Me too! 1961, New York to Cleveland with my Dad. I was 4 years old, it was one of my first memories. Not only that, we took a helicopter from midtown to Idlewild.
Flying sure was a different experience back then. Every one looks so formal. Very roomy plane.
There was only one class on an airplane. No Economy or Business class. Just First Class.
@@reynaldoflores4522 Agreed there was only one class. Not Economy, not Business, not First. Just Deaf Class!
I remember my first flight as a kid in the 1960's. You dressed up when you flew back then. The stewardesses passed out small packs of cigarettes to everyone on the plane. I was something like 4 or 5 years old at the time and I got a pack of cigarettes too.
Intriguing!! Thank you.
An interesting 49 min flick I'd never seen before.
My neighbor told me this movie was called "Eyeliner". I am half an hour into it and getting ready to go back to my father's original mascara. My mother was a competitive weightlifter, and she traveled to matches on TWA Constellations from the mid-1950s to the early '60s. They would put her barbells on opposite sides of the hold. Those were GREAT planes. Someday, somebody ought to do a movie FEATURING CONSTELLATIONS. Now, THAT would be a movie i would watch.
But we all know the Jet People have bought off the Big Guys. Or vice versa. That's it, the Big Guys have bought off the Jet People. Or somebody. Howard Hughes is involved, has to be.
I'm not changing my eyeliner.
The ending was funny, cute, giggle, with them 2 gossip gals that "wanna gotta know." They say, "we gotta become airline hostesses." Then THE EnD. Good intensity thriller with humor to close off. Good movie.
Too bad we couldn't see the wide expanse of the midwest, the only place you'll find more corn than on board that TWA Connie.
I do enjoy these old films and thank you for making this available.
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Thank you very much .
Nov. 15th 2021 Mon. 10:29 am
from Yokohama City Japan
55 years ago, we could have been there.
Good movie! and a happy ending! Cool seeing the TWA plane with the roomy seats and a sitting area for conversation, etc. I flew back in that day and I remember it being a very bumpy flight!
Great film I enjoyed it very much with a great ending
I remember a Constellation which survived in Malta as a burger bar, was at least 30 years ago when I last visited on holiday there…. I think it fell into dis-repair and has gone now…. Was a bit of an odd relic I suppose but I always enjoyed seeing it and climbing up the long steps to get on board..
I enjoy watching the beautiful Lockheed Super Constellation (exterior views only; no actual interior views of cabin nor cockpit were shown; only used oversized stage-mockups).
Cockpit mockup was missing Flight Engineer station, Navigator & Radio Operator Stations. 😞
I hear you, I think they were trying to imply it every time the captain seemed to be looking over his shoulder talking to the air? ha
Not to be picky, however this one is a Constellation, not the stretched Super Connie. That wouldn't come until 1951. It'd have to be one of the most beautiful planes in the world, right?
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You’re very observant
Connie pilots back in those days described the Constellation as the finest three-engined airliner ever built!
Great movie, thanks.
what a really great aviation based film,yes it was corny BUT it is good corny i could watch this film again without any problem,so can we please have more of these aviation type movies, thank you, p.s. the connie cockpit that i was in was three times smaller than the one in the film but to get the camera equipment and stuff in i think we can live with it being oversize, so keep them coming C,C,C and we will watch them Regards J,T, at 73 !
I was 12 years old, alone and scared from charlotte to. Tampa fla on eastern airlnes.
When I saw "Rochelle" Hudson, I wondered if 'Rock' was "coming out" in this flick?
This is why I've never fly ✈✈✈ the passengers are always trouble its better to stay on the ground you can avoid
All the travelling and live longer flying is still for the Birds 🦅🕊🐦🦉
A classic? Hardly!
Buena pelicula y gracias por subirla
I was born in the Baldwin Hills part of Los Angeles in 1943. I vaguely remember the old Los Angeles municipal airport, later relocated or expanded towards the ocean. Actor George Meeker worked at the Baldwin Hills liquor store. I saw him many times though I was too young to appreciate his former glory as a movie star. He moved to Carpinteria California and died there in 1984. I moved to Santa Barbara in 1977 and was aware that he was in Carpinteria but never saw or met him there. Around 2007, someone bumped me off my motorcycle on the 101 freeway. I was unhurt and the driver helped me right the motorcycle which I drove home. Unbelievably, I discovered the driver was closely related to George Meeker by marriage.
I'm pretty sure George Meeker was the guy with the gun and pencil thin mustache that escaped momentarily from the beautiful super constellation aircraft. How did you like the G-Man testing the point of the lethal pin with his finger? I thought it was a great movie including the ineptitudes sprinkled throughout. They added to the charm.
For some reason i started thinking of Superman when i saw the plane flying or maybe it was the music then BOOM, Jimmy Olsen Co Pilot!
They must be villains...one has an accent, the other a mustache! Pilot has a wise-guy voice, sounds like a 'Bowery Boy' .
I was thinking that of the co-pilot.
Thank you !!! ♥️♥️♥️
Preciosa película. Muchas gracias por permitirnos verla. Saludos.
Salute!
Flew as a passenger in a Connie from LA to :Phoenix in the summer of '59, too clueless to appreciate it until recently when I watched a long doc on commercial airliners of the 30s to 60s.
And we say social media is nasty! People have always gossiped, they've always made assumptions based on their fear or ignorance. Human nature doesn't change.
Back in the day when flying was a occasion so everyone dressed up in their best. Also imagine toilets as big as that, now you can hardly edge in sideways!
Tight in there
Nice low budget who done it. Tickets on that Constellation must have been very expensive adjusted for inflation compared with today's flights. Imagine, low passenger count, room for a lounge where you could play cards, and washrooms big enough for 3 people. Large, comfortable seats, just two for each row. You could bring a handgun on the plane. I remember flights during the 1960s and early 1970s. Very expensive so that most people didn't fly often. Everyone dressed up. Not like today's flights filled with riffraff dressed in pajamas. We'll never see those days again.
Three men in the bathroom and you could still swing a cat! Not like that anymore.
Hey, that's exactly what I thought.
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We are in a very exclusive club!!!!
And that was real wood paneling too I'd wager - not the MacTac of today!
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You betcha!!!
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I love seeing things in old films that I am familiar with. The thermostat with the little clock that was outside the telephone booth at the aeroport. we has that in our house whilst growing up. The scripts might be a little weak in some of the old films, but I would rather spend my time watching them than modern day junk. Three men could fit in one wash room, where now one can barely fit in it.
Great Movie 😊
47:56 - It looks like a Parker 51 fountain pen, an excellent writer.
Hilarious the guy checks the point on the poisoned pen to see if it's 'pokey' - he coulda died a horrible death right there! Safety last.
Love Parker pens!
No mention or instructions for use of landing gear?! WTF? It sure changed my opinion of the flick. But 10-Q for posting, CCC !
Love the ending! I want an application too! ; ))
Excellent movie, thank you! Ron PTL USA, USN 1960-64
Gets the poison pen. Then taps the needle point with his finger. Clever guy 😂
Thanks!
Rochelle Hudson could still bring it. She was a cutie in old movies from the early thirties.
The original FULL running time was 61 minutes. The nude scenes have been edited out.
This is a very good move 🎥🎥I liked it .. Thank you!
Thanks so much real classic Film
"Teenie Weenie Airlines." The captain of the Connie only had two stripes on his cuffs. The co-pilot had a stripe and a half. Looks like 'wardrobe Dept. ' must've scrounged up a couple of old Navy officer jackets. The captain should displayed four stripes, and his co-pilot three stripes. No TWA insignia on the head gear of any of the crew. I didn't know a single member of the cast. I usually know one or two.
James I noticed that also. Strange because at that time TWA had a publicity department that handled getting TWA into movies. I met the last guy that did it. He had the mockups, seats etcetera in a warehouse. He did not work for TWA any longer but had connections. I helped him go through some old parts and found the sidewall panels he could use.
My husban worked for Pan Am. The pilots uniforms were not authentic. We used to call TWA, Teenie weenie airlines., Air France was Air chance. It was great flying in those days.
@@roseoreillysievers6057 This movie was real low budget. Where did your husband work? I was at Lax with TWA in maintenance. Pan Am had a shack on our lease between our high bay and coast guard ramp.
@@jayreiter268 My husband worked at Kennedy Airport. We were in Taipei. Taiwan Pan Am had a contract for R&R for the GI's. because of the Vietnam War. We were also in Berlin. Flying is not the same anymore.
@@roseoreillysievers6057 We left Japan on Dec 25th, 1966 because PAA had a US Mail contract. With only 14 people on board. Most of which were crew (4) and deadhead crew (4). Moved us up to first class and told us each to take a row of seats on the stretched 707. Deadhead crew went to the rear of the plane for half the flight. Then they shutdown two of the engines once we got to cruising altitude. We landed 30 minutes early at LAX. And you are right, flying isn't the same anymore.
Flew on one a LONG time ago. Back when flying on a plane was fun unlike today.
Flying today can be fun. Give yourself AMPLE time & go into it w a POSITIVE ATTITUDE. HAPPY FLYING!!!
Thanks for the Good movie ccc👍
Great !! Love that G man!❤️😀
Incidentally, those engines are putting out 13,600 horses 🐎. That's why they sound so good.
47:58 Impressive training for a G-man: he touches the point of a poison pen with his finger. Always good to double-check to make sure you have the right pen. 🤨🤨