In an RKO thriller from 1956, Back From Eternity, Gene Barry and Phyllis Kirk star along with Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, and Robert Ryan. When a DC-3 crash-lands in headhunter territory, ony five of the eight passengers will survive.
In the 1938 Columbia picture Flight Into Nowhere, Jack Holt and Ward Bond were featured.
Alan Ladd, third from left, starred in The Big Jump, aka The Red Beret, aka The Paratrooper;
A still from None But The Brave, a Warner Brothers production with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, and Brad Dexter.
From the United Artists 1977 film The Eagle Has Landed, with Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, and Jenny Agutter;
From the 1959 film, Paratroop Command from American International with Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan, and Carolyn Hughes.
Flying Blind, a 1941 Paramount picture with Richard Arlen and Jean Parker;
Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon, with Jane Wyatt, Thomas Mitchell, and Sam Jaffe.
The United Artists production A Bridge Too Far is the story of the Allied defeat by the Nazis at Arnhem in Holland. The paratroop and glider landings of the actual battle, Operation Market-Garden, required hundreds of C-47 Skytrain aircraft. The movie was based on the book by Cornelius Ryan. It starred Ryan O’Neal, left, as General James Gavin, Edward Fox, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Liv Ullman, Laurence Olivier, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, Dirk Bogarde, and Maximillian Schell.
Shirley Temple starred with James Dunn in Bright Eyes, a film featuring scenes shot in a DC-2 airliner.
