Five Came Back (1939) Lucille Ball RARE DVD

Runtime: 75 mins
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
Director: John Farrow
Genre: Adventure

Chester Morris ... Bill Brooks
Lucille Ball ... Peggy Nolan
Wendy Barrie ... Alice Melbourne
John Carradine ... Mr. Crimp
Allen Jenkins ... Peter 'Pete'
Joseph Calleia ... Vasquez
C. Aubrey Smith ... Professor Henry Spengler
Kent Taylor ... Joe, the Co-Pilot
Patric Knowles ... Judson Ellis
Elisabeth Risdon ... Martha Spengler
Casey Johnson ... Tommy Mulvaney

Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star" crashes into a treacherous South American jungle. With a hostile tribe of headhunters drawing ever closer, pilots Bill (Chester Morris) and Joe (Kent Taylor) race against time to repair the crippled plane and rescue themselves and the nine other survivors.

It soon becomes tragically apparent that the damaged aircraft will be able to carry only five of the marooned party. It now comes down to a question of who will survive, or who deserves to: Spineless socialite Judson Ellis (Patric Knowles), his embittered wife Alice (Wendy Barrie), elderly scientist Spengler (C. Aubrey Smith), Spengler's devoted spouse Martha (Elizabeth Risdon), trollop Peggy (Lucille Ball), condemned anarchist Vasquez (Joseph Calleia), Vasquez' detective-captor Crimp (John Carradine), likeable mob henchman Pete (Allen Jenkins), or gangster's son Tommy (Casey Johnson)? Suffice to say that the ending is determined by random acts of courage, cowardice, and unexpected self-sacrifice.

Scripted by Nathaniel West and Dalton Trumbo and brilliantly directed by John Farrow, Five Came Back was a major critical and financial success for the beleagured RKO. Director Farrow remade the film in 1956 as Back From Eternity.

Very good video/audio quality 7/10

Standard NTSC Video format

Region 0 or FREE so DVD will play worldwide

DVD comes with custom professional disc artwork!!