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Forced Landing is a american film of genre Action directed by Gordon Wiles released in USA on 11 july 1941 with Richard Arlen
Forced Landing (1941)
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Add to a movie listForced Landing is a 1941 action film directed by Gordon Wiles and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film recounts the exploits of a pilot in Mosaque, an imaginary country in the midst of turmoil.Forced Landing stars Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther and Evelyn Brent.
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In faraway tropical Mosaque, as soon as American pilot Dan Kendall {Richard Arlen) joins the country's Air Corps, he is in trouble. Along with his mechanic Christmas (Mikhail Rasumny), he is thrown into the military prison. His troubles start at a cantina after buying exotic beauty Johanna Van Deuren (Eva Gabor) a drink, not realizing he has antagonized her fiancé, Colonel Jan Golas (Nils Asther). A fight breaks out, leading to the pilot's arrest.Actors
Richard Arlen
(Dan Kendall)
Nils Asther
(Col. Jan Golas)
J. Carrol Naish
(Andros Banshek)
Eva Gabor
(Johanna Van Deuren)
Evelyn Brent
(Brunet Who Turns In Andros)
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