Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

boblipton Anna Lee is a chorine on her last legs on Broadway, when she sort of witnesses a murder. Before she realizes it, she has been framed for theft and spent several years as a guest of His Majesty. When she gets out and realizes that they're about to hang an innocent man. So she goes to Scotland Yard, where Inspector John Loder is unconvinced by her vague memories and inability to identify the actual murder. Since there's only a couple of days left, she stows away on a flying clipper to New York, and guess who else is there? Not only Loder, but Francis Sullivan, the actual murderer.The story is put together in a fairly clever way, and it's all given an appropriately Mid-Atlantic sound, what with Sullivan affecting a Uruguayan accent for his own purposes. Frank Cellier has a nice role as a blackmailer looking for material and Robert Stevenson directs in his usual competent but non-individual manner. It was clearly produced by British-Gaumont for distribution on both sides of the Atlantic, but other than making a few British actors a bit more familiar to American audiences, it didn't set any house records at the time.

Robert J. Maxwell Anna Lee is a cute English blond, who kept her looks as she aged, stranded in New York after her show closes. She witnesses a murder. An innocent vagrant is convicted and sentenced to death, but Lee, who has by this time returned home to London, knows the real murderer. She runs to Scotland Yard but the Inspector, handsome young John Loder, dismisses her as just another publicity-seeking showgirl.Desperate to save the vagrant, who will be executed in two days, Lee stows away aboard a flying boat. Other passengers, by the most improbable coincidences, include Loder, the actual murder (Francis L. Sullivan), a small boy who is a violin virtuoso, a blackmailer, and assorted others.Sullivan is not the blustering hefty ham of his later years. Here, he's elephantine but soft spoken, almost effete, well greased. Anna Lee is no more than another pretty English girl. Nova Pilbeam or Madeleine Carol could have handled the role. But Lee's allure had an interesting feature in that its zenith lasted for twenty years or more. Her career, in fact, lasted 71 years, from 1932 to 2003.There are bits of drollery in the dialog, none of it overdone. The setting -- the remnants of the Great Depression in 1938 -- are neatly evoked. Lee can't afford the cup of coffee and the ham sandwich she orders at the drugstore counter -- total, twenty cents.And the airplane taking all those passenger to New York is a sight to behold. Private compartments, as on a train, a dining room, an observation deck. Surely Hitchcock would have handled it differently but this isn't to be dismissed as junk by any means. The plot is its weakest part, but it doesn't torpedo the rest of the film.

oscar-35 *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.

Arun Vajpey I first heard of Non-stop New York while browsing, of all things, the Aurum Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction films. The only reason that this film was included in that book was because it is 'futuristic' by 3 years; it was made in 1937 while the main action takes place in 1940. One interesting point is that the filmmakers did not know that WW2 had started by then and so there is no mention of it.For some reason, the film is very obscure, only 39 viewers (including me) having voted for it on IMDb at the time of this writing. But is a fast moving little thriller full of incisive British wit. The film is so quintessentially British that one cannot help but notice that even the 'Americans' are local actors wincing with their attempts at transatlantic accents. But for this one minor flaw, the film is thoroughly enjoyable with perfect casting and good, if lightweight performances. An added bonus, certainly from my own perspective, is that most of the action takes place on board a Transatlantic Clipper, one of those seaplanes that were so glamorous in the 1930s. A definite Collector's item and I am the proud owner of a good quality VHS tape.