"Non-Stop New York" is a delightful film from 1937 starring Anna Lee, John Loder, and Francis L. Sullivan.Anna Lee (Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital) is pretty Jenny Carr, a young British actress in New York City with a flop play. So soon, she'll be on her way back to London. She meets a man who sees she's hungry and offers to buy her a meal. That man is later murdered, and a bum is arrested. He is due to be executed in a matter of days. He says that an English girl knows he didn't do it, but no one can find her. She's already home. Once she sees a headline that she's being searched for, she realizes she has to get back to the US immediately. She and her mother find a plane that goes London to NY in 18 hours, and her mother pretends to be drowning while Jenny boards the plane.Little does Jenny know but the real killers are out to stop her.This plane is something to behold. It's a clipper, and apparently this type of plane did exist. Wish it still did. The inside is more like a train, with sleeping compartments, dining room, and one can step out onto a terrace like thing outside the plane. It also flies rather low. Totally amazing.Francis L. Sullivan is excellent as the slimy gang head who wears different disguises in his quest to get rid of Jenny. Apparently - could this be true - he was 35 years old when he did this. If you'd told me he was 65 I would have believed you.John Loder, who was married at one time to Hedy Lamarr, is the handsome investigator who really doesn't believe Jenny.This film is available on youtube. Try and see it - it's very enjoyable.

*Spoiler/plot- Nonstop New York, 1937. An English performer is in the USA for work during her recent lay-off, she accidentally gets connected to a murder of a prominent mob lawyer and she sees who kills him. A unemployed man is arrested and convicted for the murder in New YorK. The innocent man is sentenced to death. A worldwide petition radio announcement asks for the English girl witness to contact the defense team to save this man's life from the death house. While she returns home, the crooks are sent to England to make sure she does not come back to the USA to testify. She enlists the help of Scotland Yardcomes back to the USA by airplane, and she saves the day.*Special Stars- John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan.*Theme- good honest people helping other is it's own reward.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W. British. The trans Altanic Clipper amphibious plane is similar to Howard Hughes 'Spuce Goose' aircraft design.*Emotion- Although this film is NOT science fiction, it is a first rate murder mystery. It has many twists and turns in it's plot and is well produced. This film is very much like some of the film noir Hitchcock films of this time.

An epitome of a nice long-forgotten filmie from the 1930s. Most of the cast and the crew also appeared in some of Hitchcock's flicks (especially in Sabotage), so be ready for some justified deja vu. Of course, you may find it very similar to Hitch's carefree yet gripping thrillers of that period, but it definitely has some charm of its own. The humour here still works, especially in the scenes with fake eyewitnesses. The cast is also solid, as is the script. I also enjoyed the amusing plan of Jennie's getting on a boat. The reason why I give it a 3/5 is that at times it lacks logic (as it always happens with thousands of thrillers) and the flying boat seems to be a paradise for criminals. And, of course, it'd have been a far well-known film that it is, if it was somehow connected with Alfie.Available on YouTube and Archive.org.

Anna Lee plays a woman in New York who sees a strange man before a murder is committed. John Loder plays the innocent man who is sent to Sing Sing for the murder the mystery man committed. When Lee finds out about it (she's in London now) she rushes back to New York to save the innocent man after the local London police won't forward her story to the American authorities. Thus the title, and the unusual sight of a gigantic flying Clipper ship that gives this film its curio value. The movie itself is an implausible Hitchcock-lite mystery-thriller, but the giant passenger plane IS interesting. It features six engines and two floors with staterooms and the whole lot, reminiscent of a Zeppelin type of luxury. Hard to imagine how these people could handle turbulence! Francis L. Sullivan is the familiar burly villain, reminiscent of an airship-sized George Sanders. The most absurd element of this film, aside from that fantasy airplane, is the notion that all the main suspects in the previous murder just happen to be aboard that same plane on the same flight. Still, it has its moments.