| Director: | William Berke (as Wm. Berke) |
| Producer: | William Stephens (as Wm. Stephens) |
| Screenplay: | Maurice Tombragel |
| Music: | Raoul Kraushaar |
| Cinematography: | Carl Berger |
| Editing: | Edward Mann |
| Studio: | Lippert Pictures |
| Runtime: | 61 minutes 49 minutes (DVD) |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United States |
Sky Liner is a 1949 American film noir action crime film directed by William Berke. It was released on the bottom half of double bills.[1] [2]
The film follows a selection of passengers on a long distance overnight flight on a silver Lockheed Constellation with Trans World Airlines, through a series of vignettes looking at the passengers and crew. Characters range from a precocious child star (intended to echo Shirley Temple) to businessmen and criminals.
An FBI man (Richard Travis) and a stewardess (Pamela Blake) solve a spy murder on the crowded airliner after a dead man is found in the toilet. All passengers are suspects. They discover the victim has been stabbed by a fountain pen containing Curare poison.
Filming started 25 April 1949 at Hal Roach's studios. It was described as "a kind of Grand Hotel of an airliner."[3]
It was made by the same writing-directing-producing team that had done Highway 13.[4]