"SKY-HIGH Excitement!"
A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.
Social & External
The people behind it
Richard Denning
Bill Wyatt
Trudy Marshall
Jerry Hansford
Damian O'Flynn
Detective Dearborn
Will Wright
Pop Hansford
James Millican
Sam Payne
Jack Lambert
Frosty Davenport
Jonathan Hale
Police Commissioner Jerome
Bess Flowers
Lanai Club Guest (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Father Mulvaney (uncredited)
Glenn Strange
Foreman Davis (uncredited)
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A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nashville, where they encounter creative differences with the producing staff. Later they play a major booking at the Apollo Theater, scheduled there under the mistaken assumption that they're a black band. Holly's career eventually goes solo -- until the tragic day the music dies.
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Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.
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Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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