Night Plane from Chungking

May. 31,1943      NR
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.

Robert Preston as  Nick Stanton
Ellen Drew as  Ann Richards
Otto Kruger as  Albert Pasavy
Steven Geray as  Reverend Ven Der Lieden
Tamara Geva as  Olga Karagin
Soo Yong as  Madame Wu
Victor Sen Yung as  Captain Po
Ernst Deutsch as  Major Brissac

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