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The Great Plane Robbery is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lewis D. Collins released in USA on 9 december 1940 with Jack Holt
The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
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Add to a movie listThe Great Plane Robbery (aka The Great Plane Robber) is a 1940 crime-adventure B film directed by Lewis D. Collins. Collins was more often associated with directing serials for Universal and Columbia Pictures. It stars Jack Holt, Stanley Fields and Noel Madison. Though typical of the melodramas that Holt made after transitioning from silent screen epics, western and adventure films were his forte. Reviewer Hal Erickson found it ironic that Holt, who in real life had a fear of flying, starred in so many aviation-oriented films. It was written by Albert DeMond from a story by Harold Greene.
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Special agent Mike Henderson (Jack Holt) has been assigned by an insurance company to protect gangster Joe Colson (Noel Madison). Joe has recently been released from prison, just three months before his life insurance policy, worth half a million dollars, is due to expire.Actors
Jack Holt
(Mike Henderson)
Stanley Fields
(Frankie Toller)
Noel Madison
(Joe Colson)
Hobart Cavanaugh
(Homer Pringle)
Milburn Stone
(Krebber)
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