Feature films with suspense, danger, excitement
Starring Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Michael Rennie
and Bette Davis, Keenan Wynn, Evelyn Varden
Tonight's film is an unusual story about four strangers each trying to escape from some part of their past. They meet while waiting for the departure of an aircraft. On the flight they come to know each other closely; and when the plane crashes and only one of the group survives he visits the relatives of his three friends and through them comes to find a solution to his own problems.
Gary Merrill stars as Trask, a lawyer who is leaving his wife because he cannot reconcile himself to her one infidelity. His companions on the flight include Binky Gay (Shelley Winters), a show girl who has failed to make the grade and is returning home to her estranged husband and domineering mother-in-law. Michael Rennie plays a doctor with a load of guilt on his conscience, and Keenan Wynn is excellent as a loud-mouthed travelling salesman. Bette Davis appears towards the end of the picture as the wife of the salesman; it is her revelation about her relationship with her husband that is instrumental in resolving Trask's own problem.