Wings of Danger
COUNTERFEIT CARGO! ...a fortune in loot...a fabulous woman...a sinister fugitive!
1952 | 73m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Terence Fisher |
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| Writer: | Packham Webb, John Gilling, Trevor Dudley-Smith |
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| A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 01, 1952 |
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| Director: | Terence Fisher |
| Writer: | Packham Webb, John Gilling, Trevor Dudley-Smith |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | blackout |
| Production Companies | Hammer Film Productions, Lippert Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Zachary Scott | Richard Van Ness |
| Robert Beatty | Nick Talbot |
| Naomi Chance | Avril Talbot |
| Kay Kendall | Alexia LaRoche |
| Colin Tapley | Inspector Maxwell |
| Arthur Lane | Boyd Spencer |
| Harold Lang | Snell, the blackmailer |
| Diane Cilento | Jeannette |
| Ian Fleming | Mr. Talbot (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| James Needs | Editor |
| Terence Fisher | Director |
| Packham Webb | Novel |
| John Gilling | Screenplay |
| Walter J. Harvey | Director of Photography |
| Trevor Dudley-Smith | Novel |
| Malcolm Arnold | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Anthony Hinds | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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After a bit of counter-play with "Van Ness" (Zachary Scott) - the brother of his girlfriend, "Nick" (Robert Beatty) sets off on a routine flight in horrid weather near the Channel Islands. The plane crashes and the ensuing police investigation starts to uncover evidence of a network of criminal acti ... vities and it falls to "Van Ness" to schmooze "Alexia" (Kay Kendall) and try to find out just who is pulling whose strings. It's all rather pedestrian, this. Scott and Kendall deliver well enough with the rather clunky script but Beatty is as wooden as his aircraft and the sense of menace that we get a hint of at the start, peters out quickly leaving us with a rather ordinary afternoon feature from Terence Fisher that just about fills seventy minutes with little jeopardy or story of note and a rather stage-bound look to it.