Death Flies East
Cast & Crew
Phil Rosen
Conrad Nagel
Florence Rice
Raymond Walburn
Geneva Mitchell
Robert Allen
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Synopsis
After nurse Evelyn Vail, who was convicted of poisoning a patient, is paroled from prison, she returns to Los Angeles and reunites with her friend, Helen Gilbert. Helen tells Evelyn that Carl Peters, who was also implicated in the crime, is about to be executed in Sing Sing prison in New York. Evelyn is concerned because her former employer, Dr. Jim Moffat, remains in prison and she decides to break her parole in order to get a confession from Peters that would clear her and Moffat of the crime. On board an airliner, Helen makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon, who is carrying a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. When the plane makes a stopover in Dallas, Baker, a passenger who has apparently been poisoned, leaves the airplane. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard Lieutenant O'Brien is poisoned and dies. Meanwhile, Evelyn's parole officer has learned that she is on board the plane and it is called back to Dallas. Evelyn is suspected of O'Brien's murder but Gordon claims that she was with him throughout the flight and convinces police officer Daniel J. Barrie to obtain handwriting samples from all of the passengers. Gordon suspects that O'Brien was poisoned during the first stop in Dallas because of a note found in the dead man's diary. Meanwhile, Baker returns to the plane and Gordon identifies him as the murderer and states that he poisoned himself in order to divert attention from his true action. Baker admits committing the crime because O'Brien sent his father to prison. Gordon then postpones his trip so he may accompany Evelyn to New York, but they arrive after Peters's execution. Gordon and Evelyn learn that before Peters died, he confessed to a priest, thus clearing Evelyn and Dr. Moffat of the crime. Happily, Evelyn and Gordon embrace.
Director
Phil Rosen
Cast
Conrad Nagel
Florence Rice
Raymond Walburn
Geneva Mitchell
Robert Allen
Oscar Apfel
Miki Morita
Purnell Pratt
Irene Franklin
George Irving
Adrian Rosley
Fred Kelsey
George Hayes
William B. Davidson
James Flavin
Arthur Rankin
Russ Clark
Mary Lou Dix
Robert Elliott
Esther Howard
Harvey Clark
Samuel S. Hinds
Frank Sheridan
Edward Van Sloan
Vessie Farrell
Howard Hickman
Niles Welch
Fiske O'hara
Edward Lesaint
Al Hill
Pat O'malley
Margaret Brayton
Arnold Gray
Frank Yaconelli
Otto Yamaoka
Harry Bowen
Evelyn Pierce
Billee Van Every
Lee Shumway
Mark Strong
Dutch Hendrian
A. R. Haysel
Frank Conroy
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The working title of this film was Mistaken Identity.
