Flight to Tangier *** (1953, Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas, Marcel Dalio, Jeff Morrow, Richard Shannon) – Classic Movie Review 12,073

Joan Fontaine stars as Susan Lane.

Writer-director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1953 American film noir action thriller film Flight to Tangier stars Joan Fontaine as Susan Lane, one of the people who flies after the $3 million in a crashed plane on a flight to Tangier, where she, pilot Gil Walker (Jack Palance), black-marketeer Danzer (Robert Douglas) and his lover Nicki (Corinne Calvet) have been vainly waiting its arrival at the airport.

Fontaine is the fiancée of the pilot, Hank Brady (John Pickard), and a reporter for the San Francisco Herald Ledger. She has got to find the $3 million in the North African desert before spies and bounty hunters do. Jeff Morrow and Richard Shannon are international police also on the trail.

This busy, pacy, quite gripping, old-fashioned lower-berth thriller is made with some zest and performed with considerable commitment by a decent cast. It looks as though it ought to be black and white but it is lensed in Technicolor and was originally made in 3D too.

Also in the cast are Marcel Dalio, Murray Matheson, John Doucette, John Pickard, James Anderson, Bob Templeton, Peter Coe, Madeleine Holmes, John Wengraf, Jerry Paris, and Otto Waldis.

It is made by Nat Holt Productions and released by Paramount Pictures in the US on 21 November 1953, with a running time of 90 minutes.

A clip from the film appears in No Country for Old Men (2007).

The cast are Joan Fontaine as Susan Lane, Jack Palance as Gil Walker, Corinne Calvet as Nicki, Robert Douglas as Danzer, Marcel Dalio as Goro, Jeff Morrow as Colonel C.M. Wier, Richard Shannon as Lieutenant Bill Luzon, Murray Matheson as Franz Kovaz, John Doucette as Tirera, John Pickard as Hank Brady, James K Anderson as Dullah, Peter Coe as Hanrah, John Wengraf as Kalferez, Bob Templeton as Luzon’s Policeman, Madeleine Holmes, Jerry Paris, and Otto Waldis.

The films of Charles Marquis Warren: Little Big Horn (1951), Hellgate (1952), Arrowhead (1953), Flight to Tangier (1953), Seven Angry Men (1955), Tension at Table Rock (1956), The Black Whip (1956), Back from the Dead (1957), Trooper Hook (1957), Without Incident (1957), The Unknown Terror (1957), Copper Sky (1957), Ride a Violent Mile (1957), Blood Arrow (1958), Cattle Empire (1958), Desert Hell (1958) and Charro! (1969).

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