Non-Stop New York – 1937 | 69 mins | Crime, Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Ingenious trans-Atlantic thriller based on Ken Attiwill’s novel Sky Steward that moves at a tremendous pace and is full of sharp character roles. Non-Stop New York was one of the last films director Robert Stevenson and his then-wife Anna Lee made in Britain before they moved to Hollywood.

London chorus girl Jennie Carr (Anna Lee) witnesses a gangland murder in New York and is framed for theft by the killer so that she’ll he sent to prison. Released, she learns her evidence could save an innocent man from the electric chair. When Scotland Yard refuse to believe her, and with the mob still on her trail, she stows away on a transatlantic flight to New York. Inspector Grant (John Loder) and the killer, Brant (Francis L. Sullivan) are both on board. Brant kills a man who is trying to blackmail him, nearly wrecks the plane and is himself killed.