Back from Eternity (1956) on Netflix
Captain Bill Lonagan's airliner flies for Boca Grande with an assassin under guard, a mobster, a child and a woman aboard. A storm forces the plane down in remote jungle.
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Plot summary
A Douglas DC-2 of a small South American airline flies for Boca Grande under Captain Bill Lonagan and co-pilot Joe Brooks. The passengers include Jud Ellis and his fiancée Louise Melhorn, the political assassin Vasquel under escort by the bounty hunter Crimp, mobster Pete Bostwick with his boss's son Tommy, Professor Henry Spangler and his wife Martha on a research trip, and Rena, bound for a casino job. Vasquel describes cannibals and how they shrink heads. A storm jolts the aircraft and the crew makes an emergency landing in a clearing in remote jungle. The group sets about repairing the plane while their plight and clashing personalities raise tensions, and they are in country inhabited by headhunters.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Back from Eternity (1956)
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- For the stream fight between Phyllis Kirk and Anita Ekberg, the crew built a stream on the sound stage with running water and foam rubber rocks so the actresses would not be hurt, and it took seven takes to film; Kirk said both women were exhausted afterwards.
- Barbara Eden made her screen debut in Back from Eternity, playing a photojournalist in a minor, uncredited role.
- The New York airport control tower seen early in the film is really the control tower of the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California.
