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Play Sound Twenty eight thousand. This suit works like a charm. We should open a tailor shop for angels. Joe. That's high enough. You've done the job. Now head up for the stable. I can't do a thing. She's got the bit in her teeth. Look... the skipper's come in the room. He's here with us. He's ordering you to land. Tell him he shouldn't be hanging around the radio tower. It's undignified.
Twenty eight thousand. This suit works like a charm. We should open a tailor shop for angels. Joe. That's high enough. You've done the job. Now head up for the stable. I can't do a thing. She's got the bit in her teeth. Look... the skipper's come in the room. He's here with us. He's ordering you to land. Tell him he shouldn't be hanging around the radio tower. It's undignified.

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Description: A military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.

Cast:
Lieutenant Doug Lee: Errol Flynn
Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake: Fred MacMurray
Lieutenant Commander Lance Rogers: Ralph Bellamy
Linda Fisher: Alexis Smith
Art Lyons: Robert Armstrong
Tim Griffin: Regis Toomey
'Lucky' James: Allen Jenkins
John Thomas Anthony: Craig Stevens
Chubby: Herbert Anderson
Senior Surgeon at San Diego: Moroni Olsen
Mrs. James: Dennie Moore
Swede Larson: Louis Jean Heydt
Corps Man: Cliff Nazarro
Measles Patient: Lane Allan
Pilot: Don Turner
Telephone Man: Tod Andrews
Party Guest: James Conaty
Helen: Ann Doran
San Diego Sr. Surgeon's Receptionist: Tom Dugan
Commander: William Forrest
Commandant's Aide: John Gallaudet
Commandant: Roy Gordon
Pilot Trainee: Alan Hale Jr.
Hospital Attendant: Creighton Hale
Admiral: Howard Hickman
Admiral Emceeing Awards: Russell Hicks
Squadron Commanding Officer: Max Hoffman Jr.
Nightclub Patron: Bert Stevens
Pilot Telling Joe 'Tim Landed RAF Plane': William Hopper
Radio Man: Owen King
Flag Man: Harry Lewis
Squadron Commander: Alexander Lockwood
Field Duty Officer: Jerry Marlowe
Tom: George Meeker
Doctor: Bert Moorhouse
Anesthetist: Will Morgan
General: Wedgwood Nowell
Worker Holding Diver's Helmet: William 'Bill' Phillips
Nightclub Waiter: Alexander Pollard
Singer (song "What's New"): Jane Randolph
Honolulu Surgeon Operating on Swede: Addison Richards
Navy Medic: Jeffrey Sayre
Bellboy with Comic Rhyme (segment "Home Mechanics"): Charles Smith
Cigarette Girl: Juanita Stark
Girl at Newsstand: Alix Talton
Commanding Officer: Richard Travis
Mechanic Who Helps Joe with Pressure Suit: Dick Wessel
Pilot Ed: Larry Williams
Mrs. Silvers: Charlotte Wynters
Abbott: Gig Young

Written by: Frank Wead, Robert Buckner

Director: Michael Curtiz

Production: Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date: 30 Aug 1941