Johnny Comes Flying Home

Johnny Comes Flying Home is a 1946 film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Richard Crane and Faye Marlowe.[1] The supporting cast features Harry Morgan and the plot involves postwar pilots starting a small aviation company.[2]

Plot Summary

Army fighter pilot Johnny Martin is diagnosed with nerve exhaustion at his discharge medical and is prevented from flying for a year. Instead he goes home with one of the other pilots, Milrs Cary, to his hometown in Iowa. While Miles returns to his family and his job at the bank, Johnny starts working as a bus driver.

Johnny has a hard time adapting to the tedious ordinary life in the small town and one day he quits his job. His other pilot buddy from the Army, Joe Patillo, is planning to start flying again.

Johnny and Miles both agree to join Joe and fly freight planes for his new company. They go to California where Joe lives, and get their first job, to fly to New York.

Since Johnny is forbidden to fly, Miles and Joe fly the plane to New York. Miles wife Sally is anxious about him flying again and asks why Johnny isn't flying. Johnny is still ashamed over his inability to fly and lies, telling Sally that he needs to work with the administration and marketing of the company.

Joe and Miles rwturn with a passenger, Anne Cummings, on the plane. Johnny is upset since he wasn't informed, and it doesn't calm him down to know that Anne paid for the trip. He is further upset when he finds out that Anne is hired as the new company mechanic.

Johnny keeps trying to get business to the company and works hard to get a contract with oil tycoon J.P. Hartley. He fails because Hartley considers their operation too small to carry out the transports. Instead they continue flying for other companies.

After a while Anne demands they use the earnings on repairing the plane. Since the men don't follow her advice she takes matters in her own hands and talks to the owner of a garage, Harry, about the repairs and the plane is transported there.

Johnny is furious when he finds out, since the company is preventied from flying a mission and loses its commission. Since they don't have the money to pay Harry, the plane remains at the garage. Anne is subsequently fired. Soon after they hear that Hartley's plane has crash landed in the middle of nowhere. The men decide to steal their plane back from the garage and fly out there to fetch Hartley. As gratitude for saving him, Hartley pays their debts to the garage and they are able to take up business again.

Miles is beginning to worry about his own finances, since Sally is about to give birth to their second child any day. He accepts to do a test flight with a new jet plane, to earn $10,000. He makes Johnny swear not to tell Sally, since she would be too worried for his safety.

The same day as the test flight, Sally goes into labor. To prevent Miles from flying, Johnny locks him into a phone booth and takes his place as pilot on the test flight. Anne finds out and pleads with him not to fly, knowing of his medical condition.

Johnny admits his love for Anne as they speak, but insists on flying to save his friend and prove his own capability as a pilot. He successfully flies the plane and return to Anne on the ground.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946) Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Brennan, Sandra. "Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)". allmovie. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79828/Johnny-Comes-Flying-Home/


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