Product Details

• Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Troy Donahue, John Kerr, Efrem Zimbalist
• Directors: Joseph M. Newman
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Bros.
• DVD Release Date: June 22, 2009
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002A5KXIC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,204 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Crowded Sky" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Warner Bros. Digital Dist Release Date: 06/24/2011

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT Airplane Disaster Film, May 10, 2010

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Stephen James "Exnerfan" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Crowded Sky (DVD)

Drama, suspense, and humor tossed together in an early airplane disaster film that still satisfies 50 years after its release. Yes, some special effects are cheap (it is a boarderline B film, afterall), but Anne Francis has never looked better! Plus, if you're a fan of the film Airplane!, you'll catch some of the references to The Crowded Sky. Buy this film and enjoy the flight!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars no bonus feature or subtitle, April 11, 2010

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Anton Beat Riess "Toni Riess" (Buch, CH Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Crowded Sky (DVD)

I never heard or seen before this movie but I was wondering about John Kerr ("South Pacific") and Troy Donahue ("A Summer Place".

The format is original aspect ratio 1.85:1. I miss on this DVD (and on the the others of WB's Archive Collection) subtitles but well.

The picture quality could be a little bit better but is OK. The sound is just in mono only.

The movie is a sort of Pre-"Airport" film.

Trivia

While Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Troy Donahue are talking in the airport coffee shop, the music playing in the background is "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith and His Orchestra, taken from a movie in which Donahue starred: A Summer Place (1959).

In this film, _Efrem Zimbalist Jr._ plays a military jet pilot who crashes his plane into the commercial DC-6 piloted by Dana Andrews. About a decade and a half later, Andrews would return the favor as his character's private plane crashed into Zimbalist's commercial jet in Airport 1975 (1974).

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hokey in '60, Hokier today..., November 3, 2010

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pickypicky - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Crowded Sky (DVD)

I first saw this turkey in 1960, and it was hokie then. I was at that time a fighter pilot and an airline pilot as well, so saw this thing as a technical bomb. I was interested in the airplanes, as the Navy jet was a TV-2, better known by the USAF nomenclature T-33, or "T-Bird" as it was known by those of us who flew it. It was then and for several years afterward the basic jet trainer for the United States Air Force, and several other NATO air forces around the world. Some of the film was pretty good, especially most of the T-Bird shots, taken from "real life." But, the crowning insult was the "collision" between the DC-7 and the T-Bird. Even by 1960 standards, it was AWFUL.
As to the rest of the movie, the soap-opera stories were dreadful, and merely "fill" for the climactic and deeply disappointing mid-air collision, which was an obviously poorly staged bumping of two model airplanes. The special effects department got an "F" on that one for sure.
I watched the movie again the other night on one of the cable movie channels, and must admit I watched it all the way through, reveling in nostalgia for those bygone days, with the convertible Rhonda drove while maintaining perfect hairdo and skin tight skirt and blouse. No one ever looked as perfectly turned out in real life as Rhonda and Anne did in this movie.
The flick was a real bomb then and now, but I admit to loving watching it with all of its crappy dialogue and worse-than-wooden acting by John Kerr and Troy Donahue. All the characters were cardboard cutouts, but the trip back in time was well worth the couple of hours of time, and it has a certain historical value in its depiction of cars, airplanes, and fashion of the time. Those were the Not-So-Good-Old-Days.
I gave it 5 stars for its nostalgia value, but clinically, it was a one star at best...