So nice to see a movie that takes place in Hawaii, without Elvis Presley or any Osmonds.

Wow , look at all the food they got on the plane!! Good movie!!

Good Flick; story, actors, sets, locations, Hawaiian quartet. Lots of nice shots of the DC-6. Osa Massen, at age 34, alluring right eyebrow. Gene Raymond, age 40, and Francis Lederer, age 49; excellent shape and perfectly-tailored suites. Thanks for another good one PizzaFlix.

Apparently, the film was a box office failure, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Francis Lederer was the perfect suave villain in it.

So heartwarming to read all the lovely messages of thanks, people's accounts of bygone times, greetings from islanders, Douglas Dulac's mom caring about the coral and sea turtles. The footage of the old aircraft in flight was a treat, seeing surfers of more than 70 years ago, Anuradha Joshi's memory of visits to the cockpit .... These old movies make magic happen. PizzaFlix, whoever you are and wherever you are, I'm sure I'm not the only viewer who has you on a pedestal!

Passengers were so polite and well-dressed on the aeroplanes

@h.r.puffinstuff7099

Жыл бұрын

My parents said people used to really dress up for air travel back then.

Engaging enough Francis Lederer stole every scene he was in, thanks for posting.

Gene Raymond was definitely one of the most underrated and undervalued actors of the Golden Era. He definitely wrote, directed and starred in a fine film here.

I love your movies. Please keep them coming.

It's amazing how she makes her eye's glisten with water. Beautiful movie. Great acting.

Great film. Showed repenting from crime it is better. Thanks for posting

i want to go back to this era of great films!!!!!

@mickeyronney4255

3 жыл бұрын

Me too and I’m only 45 but I remember my grandmother watching these movies and I remember when life was hood people would be kind to eachother. It’s now a horrible place where no one knows good movies and good acting

I love seeing Francis Lederer. He could play anything from threatening to sympathetic to ..... Thank you, PizzaFlix!

THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THIS MASTERPIECE ALIVE!

Great movie thank you very much!!!

Loved it! The great age of travel, when only the rich(Mostly) could travel on airplanes and they all got dressed up to do it! LA , Frisco & Honolulu, all in one movie. Great ending!

With your movies, there are Strike adverts that are great. Thank you for sharing this movies, and they are clear and interesting.

Oh so GOOD!!! They dont make movies like this these days!!

Worth waiting for......happily ever after!

Seeing Honolulu back in 1948 was nice. I live now in Honolulu and miss the old days and ways. The hotel pictured there was the Royal Hawaiian and is still the same pink beautiful historic hotel. Even Trippler VA hospital was shown as they flew into Honolulu. I love living here but so different now.

@mariondickman8075

2 жыл бұрын

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@mariondickman8075

2 жыл бұрын

Pick We

@susanfaulkner2304

Ай бұрын

Four years later, it is ruined . . .

Life should be like in movies

Wonderful flick!

I love that the cab driver does whatever he says! :)

Better than I expected. Thanks for uploading.

Love overcomes all the troubles thank you that was great❤❤❤😘

@sheiladavis6523

3 жыл бұрын

Rosabelle Lopez That's only in movies ,on tv and in fairy tales in a book that love overcomes all troubles.But most definitely NOT in real life . 3-8-2021

One of my favorites: * * * * *'s for everything and everybody ... Thanks for sharing.

Ending gave me chills. Fun story. Thanks PizzaF!

@jacquelinejanz8466

3 жыл бұрын

Me too Although I knew it was coming all along

Fantastic movie 🎥

There’s nothing like peace of mind.

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

Taxi drivers who willingly follow that car.

Not just a crime thriller it's also a love story with a beautiful ending. Thx for the upload 😊.

@drrachellevitch3773

Жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert🤨

Enjoying this movie in Lockdown Covid19 Durban South Africa 2020

@MagnusDolph

3 жыл бұрын

What's up sir, I'm wondering how is it over there?

@MagnusDolph

3 жыл бұрын

Follow me on Instagram: @Dolph_Magnus

@marnialazreg1505

3 жыл бұрын

Doing the same here in NY, USA

@bewarethelocusts6586

3 жыл бұрын

Phuk lockdown! Get some balls!

Francis started out as a romantic lead then villain roles and played one of my favorite Dracula roles in 1958s Return of Dracula.

Thank you PizzaFlix, I enjoyed this unusual film and being introduced to the lovely Osa Massen.

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

Osa Massen. I think was a.Swedish actress.

Great Movie ! Thanks for the entertaining flick. PEACE

Great movie....directed by a great actor!!!

thank you for your old movie I love it take care of yourself.

Thank you!

This channel is Grand! 👍👏👏👏

Very nice! Good story.

I just love old movies

@tedbell4416

6 жыл бұрын

Christine Hathaway me too

@johnsinger9156

5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@Mhel2023

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Celltooth

4 жыл бұрын

me to. gives me a feeling of calm.

Short, and simple, yet a great movie nonetheless.

Superb love from Bangladesh.....!!

Very intriguing! Viewing from Honolulu. Thank you for posting.

LOVELY FILM.THANKS.

they made considerable use of the voice of Paul Frees in this movie. So far I recognized him as the voice of the minister at the cemetery, the pilot and the air traffic controller.

@hertzair1186

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Ripsin ...plus the airport terminal intercom voice...plus one of the public voices saying good bye to the passengers boarding the plane....and the voice of San Francisco hotel clerks...

@footfault

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, ha, good catch. To stay within that overall budget.

thanks for posting

Great to see Honolulu in the good ol' days. I was that surfer on the left at minute 23:10.

@deborahleone4351

5 жыл бұрын

JuanJose123 Wowie!!! I can say I’ve talked to a movie star!!! You looked grrrrrrreat! God bless you 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏💕🙋‍♀️

@lesizmor9079

4 жыл бұрын

And I was the Valet at the hotel. Ah, those were the days, eh Juan? The surf, your glorious body glistening in the sun--- then the moonlight--- then the dim light of the drunk tank. Good times..............

@johnrogan9420

4 жыл бұрын

Sitting on your surf board?

@sharksport01

4 жыл бұрын

Happy 124th birthday

@MrResearcher122

4 жыл бұрын

JuanJose123 You must be in your 90s?

Nice...I'm not a big romance fan by any means....more mystery....but her smile at the end spoke volumes. Good download.

@patrickwhite5283

6 жыл бұрын

Mary D. Tindall I agree

@autumnt.allgood8895

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it did. Am free. Let's do our thing.

Love this channel thanks so much 👏👏

Enjoyed the movie, thank you!

Good

enjoyed every bit.

He should have put his valuables in the hotel safe if only until 10 p.m.

Like Monty Wooley, Francis Lederer was first and foremost an acting teacher. You'd agree no doubt that he's mastered the sleazy scumbag character.

@ria1636

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Francis certainly played a revolting type well.

I love her attire. She is beautiful!

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

No over stuffed plane with people fighting and screaming kids.

Such perfect acting from that lady lover, the way she laughs at Francis, letting him know that she’s not beguiled by his nonsense whatsover. 1:07:35. Probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. Actually, the whole scene starts at 1:05:20. Great actressing. Took a lot of deliberation to get that just right.

Million Dollar Weekend, released 29 October 1948 (Los Angeles, California, USA). Gene Raymond as Nicholas Lawrence; Osa Massen (as Stephanie Paull) as Cynthia Strong; Francis Lederer as Alan Marker; Robert Warwick as Dave Dietrich; Patricia Shay as Sally; James Craven as Dr. George Strong; The Royal Hawaiian Serenaders, Hawaiian Singers; Don Brodie, Taxi Driver; Ken Christy, Airline Steward; James Conaty, Mourner at Funeral; Douglas Evans, Hotel Desk Clerk; Franklyn Farnum, Plane Passenger; Tom Ferrandini, Mourner at Funeral; Jody Gilbert, Big Woman at Airline Counter; Tim Graham, Pilot; Kenner G. Kemp, Mourner at Funeral; Wilbur Mack, Mourner at Funeral; Charles Meakin, Plane Passenger; Sol Murgi, Mourner at Funeral; Keith Richards, Pilot; Jeffrey Sayre, Airline Passenger; Hal Taggart, Plane Passenger; Paul Weber, Airline Clerk.

روعه شكراًجزيلاً

Great time travel to simpler times All in all the CHINS in this film are extraordinary. Right outta Dick Tracey

Amazing how many men I've seen getting their faces slapped by a woman since I got into these old movies. Without retaliating! No way a woman gets away with that for quite some time now. 👋😳 Another thing, taxi drivers willing to drive crazy to lose or catch another car. Obviously something illegal, or potentially so, about to happen, I'd tell them no way, get out!

Wowww! That's how they fed people on planes back then now if you're lucky you'll get a half snack and a small cup soda! We do move backwards a lot on human appreciation! Hm we're a sad case

@RADIUMGLASS

4 жыл бұрын

Passengers today don't deserve that kind of treatment. Do you see the messes they leave? Look at how they dress, like garbage. It's a different breed of people flying today.

@jennifersykes8387

4 жыл бұрын

So damn true,lol

@Ckom-Tunes

3 жыл бұрын

@@RADIUMGLASS I’d say that was his thesis.

@dillardjenkins5118

3 жыл бұрын

That how Hollywood shows it, in real life it's different.

He is the perfect Cad.

Excellent

A young stockbroker embezzles a million dollars and plans to flee to Shanghai. En route, he meets a woman fleeing Los Angeles after the suspicious death of her husband, who appeals for help after a blackmailer threatens to accuse her of murder.

Great movie, loved it loved it loved it .🎥🎬👏🏾

7:47 Good old days when you could go right out on the tarmac to watch the plane take off

Great line early in the movie. A very heavy set woman is checking her bags at the ticket counter and asks if there is any charge for overweight. The man says, "Only for boxes and bags".

@MikeGreenwood51

5 жыл бұрын

Betty Davis and Joe Louis? It's a joke. Lol.

@13APM

5 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha

@jameskoch7190

4 жыл бұрын

Should have said ,“Only for boxes and old bags”.

@anthonyhorton1989

4 жыл бұрын

ha ha [

This guy had a million bucks in bonds but had sense enough to return them before he got into any trouble. Figuring out that crime does not pay, is not difficult at all. It's the greedy people who refuse to believe that crime doesn't pay unless you're playing Monopoly. Oh, they figure it out after going to prison. Too late!

Thank You for the movie 🎥

The opening skyscraper shot appears to be that of either The Tribune Tower or the Wrigley Building in Chicago with the wonderful shiny terra cotta surfaces.

@leelarson107

4 жыл бұрын

And that building has appeared in about every other movie made during this time

This is a good film, but I enjoyed the old footage of Honolulu most of all. From my home on O'ahu, as I look out at everything, I sorely wish Hawai'i still looked as it did 100 years ago (at the very least). It would've been better if the Kanaka were able to keep more of the 'āina from being destroyed by "progress" & corp. greed. :'( Visitors, please help us keep what's left of Hawai'i. Mahalo nui loa!

@None-zc5vg

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of post-war Japanese 'investment' and 'development', I understand.

@johngillon6969

4 жыл бұрын

I miss the days when you boarded a plane thru a 4 foot high chain link fence and got to go walk up on the big beautiful bird and climb that little stairway. Hate how big everything is now how you go to the airports and walk miles to get to the gate. People are so paranoid and demand 100% safety and we get prodded and inspected like a bunch of cattle every where we go. For god sakes went to harbor frieght and the B**ch at the cash register wanted my god damn phone number. I said i don't give that out to any one that wants it, and they wouldn't sell me anything. that's ok, i kind of felt bad buying that chinese junk, just to save a few pesos. what's up wake up. we are not cattle.

@None-zc5vg

4 жыл бұрын

@@johngillon6969 In the late '50s my local way-out-of-town city airport was still a late-'30s affair with a few hangars, a tower (with a light-beacon that swept dramatically over the still-rural surroundings of farms and orchards). There was even a gated public road across the main (of 2) runway and just a chain-link fence that separated John Public from the aircraft ( still mostly DC-3s and some newer '50s twin-turboprops). Most passengers were checked-in at a city-centre air-terminal and were bussed-out straight to their waiting planes. Actor Sterling Hayden learned to parachute there in WW2. Now the place has morphed into a mini-city/commercial complex that's wiped away its '50s surroundings and inflicts jet noise on a wide area. Passengers have to suffer body-searches and are scammed by the airlines through baggage-fees and the like. I wouldn't go through it and I remain grounded.

@johngillon6969

4 жыл бұрын

Anon Anon:You are an ancient one like me. Everything has changed, and i don't think young people want to hear or understand just how much. I don't mind whats going on in the world anymore, cause i had a good life. and now retired and irrelevant. It is insane how efficient all of our appliances are now and with the 90% efficient gas furnaces our homes consume probably 5 times as much energy as my dad's house. With the cost of our internet connection, all the telemarketers, etc. I would gladly go back to that telephone we had at my dads house. we were able to communicate with each other and people didn't go with one hand in front of their face looking at a phone as the walk down the street. You could remember all your friends phone numbers . hell we thrived back then. we didn't go to good will or wear any one elses clothes, people didn't have yard sales or flea markets. How many times have been you been having dinner with say 5 people and most likely 3 at the table will be texting or just brousing th internet while shareing a meal. I hate the terms multi tasking, from the get go, at the end of the day. I myself have lost the ability to even get thru one book. i find the internet has given me the attention span of a chip monk.

@LaoZi2023

4 жыл бұрын

My mom does her part, living on the Big Island, she educates people about the coral and turtles, advising people to stay off the coral and not to touch the sea turtles!

well of course a crook would never register under his own name

Wonderful movie Thank you.

Thanks for the flick👊

Thank you for posting. B movies are the best. Happy viewing from Las Vegas, NV 8/30/18

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

"Follow that car........And step on it!!!".

3 People here were saying that the actress who played Cynthia looked like a man. To me Osa Massen, which was her real name was a beautiful woman.

@ria1636

4 жыл бұрын

People who say such an untruth need strong glasses or at least probably make Trolls look beautiful. Osa was definitely a gorgeous woman.

@ellamone9998

4 жыл бұрын

Ria I agree, she has eyes that say a lot just by her looking at a person. I don't know who the 3 people were but yes they need big glasses🔍🔎🔍🔍🔎🔎 Very lovely lady, 1st movie I've seen her in.

@pagethreemodel

4 жыл бұрын

There are lot of conspiracy theorists who believe that all celebrities are transgenders lol. I wouldn't pay it any mind.

@hertzair1186

4 жыл бұрын

Gordon Robinson : her chiseled Nordic good looks are a bit androgynous...

@robinson01902

4 жыл бұрын

@@hertzair1186 Are you saying that she was a man?

good old picture show

NO LINES AT THE AIRPORT!

@hertzair1186

4 жыл бұрын

Sam West ...there aren’t any now either

@CoExist64

3 жыл бұрын

@@hertzair1186 exactly. Pretty creepy

starts well ... plot becomes weak ... abruptly ends ...

....evidently this is before hotel rooms had individual locks...

@PizzaFlix, thank you for another wonderful movie. I wonder how she resolved her blackmail issue?

There's nothing subtle here, at 2:30 minutes in the beginning of this movie you know a criminal mind is at work.

sweet

The clothing attire much better for travelers in the air

Good movie

Mesmerizing woman

So many cigarettes in these old movies. But, I love these old black and white flicks. The lead actress, to me, when she is looking down resembles Eve Arden.

What a weekend...

Smoke in the plane, carry a loaded gun with you in the plane, travel under a false name in the plane, blackmail someone aboard the plane, change seat without any problem or permission aboard the plane; then call all this 'the good old times' in 2020; while fuming about the security-hassles sitting aboard a safe, silent and smoke-free plane. 😊 That's me.

@90FF1

4 жыл бұрын

We ain't seen nothin' yet!

@footfault

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, they did show us a guy from the "gummint" asking if illegal fruits & seeds were brought into San Francisco! Now that's law enforcement par excellence!

...and they lived happily ever after; until they died of throat cancer from smoking.

Peter Lorre would've killed that role of Alan Marker (Francis Lederer), in fact Lederer kinda plays a Peter Lorre playing Alan Marker. I love it! I'm editing this to say that I'm sure this part was meant with Peter Lorre in mind.

@annazeman8521

4 жыл бұрын

I am glad it was Francis Lederer. He was much better looking than Peter Lorre, and he could be just as scary in a somewhat different way.

What were the chances that the girl who brought up the coffee to the "foreigner looking guy" would just happen to walk right into the bar that "the hero" was sulking in?? Made the movie almost fall into the "C" category. Loved the Waikiki beach and surfing shots. It must've been heaven on earth back in '48. Would love to throw a few modern surfboards into my time machine - destination Hawaii 1948. I also found the airport/airplane scenes intriguing. So orderly, casual and mellow. Leg room on planes - imagine that.

@robertmusacchio9409

5 жыл бұрын

first class a life-time-ago ?

@erniebakeswell9623

4 жыл бұрын

the movie is firmly in the C category all along. I'd argue though that since Raymond had searched high and low for Lederer, it was dramatic irony that when he gave up, he found him.

@None-zc5vg

4 жыл бұрын

Product-placement for United Airlines ?

@thankthelord4536

4 жыл бұрын

I could do w/o the smoking.

@miata1492

2 жыл бұрын

@@thankthelord4536 I'll be sure to tell the writers and director on your behalf.

I'll have Southern Comfort on ice the stewardess are very cooperative on this flight

Me too🌻

👍👍👍👍👍👍🌷

No metal detectors or terrorist at the airport

only an incompetent idiot would leave a million dollars in an unsecured hotel closet.

@samwst56

4 жыл бұрын

Tis only a movie. hahaha

@autumnt.allgood8895

4 жыл бұрын

I would of taken it to a bus depot & put in it in one those lockers.

@footfault

3 жыл бұрын

RIGHT. He was asking for it. Porters, cleaning staff, etc., all have access and many open suitcases when they can.

These old movin pictures always seem to display cases of stairs.

Pretty good. Leading lady got a little boring at times.

Didn't she say she had scars? Where were they? Please don't leave it to our imagination. - Great movie though.

@passionfruitfruit

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Telarket she said she had mental scars 😉

@georgerobson8938

5 жыл бұрын

And I