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A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
Pedro de Cordoba
- Latin Ambassador
- (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
- Airport Worker
- (uncredited)
Robert Homans
- Police Captain
- (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
- Airline Official
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBudgeted at a mere $225,000, which was extremely low even by RKO standards, this picture netted a rather impressive $262,000 in profits.
- GoofsWhen Vasquez checks his pistol at the end, there are only two cartridges in the cylinder; the remaining four chambers are empty. A revolver doesn't eject spent cartridges, so the other chambers should still contain spent shells.
- ConnectionsFeatured in King of the Zombies (1941)
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Five Came Back from Eternity
Passengers get ready for the ill-fated flight foreshadowed in the film's title "Five Came Back". Handsome businessman Patric Knowles (as Judson Ellis) and pretty blonde secretary Wendy Barrie (as Alice Melbourne) are going to elope. Looking like either a movie star or a classy call girl, beautiful Lucille Ball (as Peggy Nolan) wants to straighten up and fly right. Elderly botany professor C. Aubrey Smith and his wife Elisabeth Risdon (as Henry and Martha Spengler) want to enjoy their twilight years. As his gangster father is threatened with extinction, cute little Casey Johnson (as Tommy Mulvaney) is shuttled to safety with henchman uncle Allen Jenkins (as Pete)...
Veteran airman Chester Morris (and Bill Brooks) and co-pilot Kent Taylor (as Joe) announce a slight delay when they are asked to take on detective John Carradine (as Crimp) and his prisoner Joseph Calleia (as Vasquez)...
When the plane crashes in an Amazon jungle thought to be inhabited by hungry head-hunters, the crew must chose only five passengers to return home on their rickety, repaired plane. The director, John Farrow, re-made this as "Back from Eternity" in 1956. The later film has a stronger script, but with performances becoming overly obvious. Here, the swiftness highlights subtlety; for example, note the impassionate love between Mr. Knowles and Ms. Barrie, then how Mr. Taylor telegraphs his interest. The more toned-down tart played by Ms. Ball is superior, but lacks detail. You're well off seeing both versions as they make up for things lacking in each other.
******* Five Came Back (6/23/39) John Farrow ~ Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Joseph Calleia, Patric Knowles
Veteran airman Chester Morris (and Bill Brooks) and co-pilot Kent Taylor (as Joe) announce a slight delay when they are asked to take on detective John Carradine (as Crimp) and his prisoner Joseph Calleia (as Vasquez)...
When the plane crashes in an Amazon jungle thought to be inhabited by hungry head-hunters, the crew must chose only five passengers to return home on their rickety, repaired plane. The director, John Farrow, re-made this as "Back from Eternity" in 1956. The later film has a stronger script, but with performances becoming overly obvious. Here, the swiftness highlights subtlety; for example, note the impassionate love between Mr. Knowles and Ms. Barrie, then how Mr. Taylor telegraphs his interest. The more toned-down tart played by Ms. Ball is superior, but lacks detail. You're well off seeing both versions as they make up for things lacking in each other.
******* Five Came Back (6/23/39) John Farrow ~ Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Joseph Calleia, Patric Knowles
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- Also known as
- Kim Ölecek? Kim Dönecek?
- Filming locations
- Production company
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- Budget
- $225,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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