
Only Angels Have Wings(1939)
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.



John Ireland
Jonas Bailey

Mari Blanchard
Iris Lee LaVonne

Gail Russell
Lynn Dillon

Jackie Coogan
Swede

Robert Middleton
Buck LaVonne

Douglas Henderson
Roy Dillon
Burt Topper
Miles Colby
Bill Ward
Chick

Johnny Carpenter
Lepley (as John Carpenter)

Bill Coontz
Bill
No Place to Land is a adventure, romance film released in 1958 exploring themes of pilot, crop dusting. Directed by Albert C. Gannaway, it stars John Ireland, Mari Blanchard, Gail Russell. A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s out to destroy him.
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