| Release Date: | Jan 1958 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
| Cast: | Rock Hudson (Burke Devlin) Robert Stack (Roger Shumann) Dorothy Malone (LaVerne Shumann) Jack Carson (Jiggs) Robert Middleton (Matt Ord) Alan Reed (Colonel T. J. Fineman) Alexander Lockwood (Sam Hagood) Christopher Olsen (Jack Shumann (as Chris Olsen)) Robert J. Wilke (Hank) Troy Donahue (Frank Burnham) William Schallert (Ted Baker) Betty Utey (Dancing girl) Phil Harvey (Telegraph editor) Steve Drexel (Young Man) Eugene Borden (Claude Mollet) Stephen Ellis (Mechanic) Bill Baldwin (Pylon Air Race Announcer (uncredited)...) Jack Chefe (Chef at Roger's Memorial Dinner...) Bess Flowers (Newspaper office clerk (uncredited)) |
In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.
