I am sure you have heard me say it before, but I am a sucker for flying pictures, and adding in Myrna Loy and Cary Grant and you have a real winner here. This is a top notch love story, and flying film, and one if you haven’t seen you should check out, or see it again if you have. I love the flying sequences, and even the miniature work is very well done here. And damn if Myrna Loy isn’t jut amazing.

Sheila Mason (Myrna Loy) is a flyer trying to make a living doing all she can, doing barnstorming to make a living, and has worshipped the flyer Ken Gordon (Cary Crant) from afar. Gordon is working on a system to fly a plane and land it via just instruments, and plans to do a cross country flight to prove that his system is working. He was worked with his partner an Scotish engineer named Mac (Hobart Cavanaugh). Sheila’s agent sees a buck in promoting her to go on the flight with him, but the unwanted publicity makes the US government stop the flight, because they don’t want it to look like they are sending someone on a suicide mission. Sheila is sorry, and didn’t know what her agent was doing, so she talks Ken into going anyway, but just before the flight, he is trying to light the stove, and it explodes and blinds him. So Ken moves out to the country to learn to live blind, but he doesn’t have much time before the airline will take his plane back for lack of payments.

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Shelia buys a seeing eye dog for Ken, and gets Mac to bring it. And though he doesn’t want it at first, he starts to see it’s usefulness, and finally agrees to come back, and starts to record articles to be sent out and sold on his ideas for instrumentation flying. He decides he wants to use the money to perfect his device, and allow him to fly literally blind.

The problem is that his articles don’t sell, so Shelia lies to him and starts doing dangerous stunts to pay for him working and perfecting the instruments, and they try and keep it from him. Things seem to be going well, and the device is almost ready, but the manufacturer wants to take the plane back, and Sheila gets them 2 more weeks, but they take it in 1. And Ken is dejected, and learns of Shiela’s lies and throws her out.

To make some quick money, she takes a dangerous flight from Moscow to New York non stop for $25000, but when she gets to New York it is socked in. Ken gets Mac to take him to where the took his plane, and to get it out, and he uses his instrumentation to go up and find Shiela, and lead her down, he tells her he plans on not landing though, and just taking off and flying out to see.

So they go down to land, but Sheila won’t let him kill himself, so she crashes into him, and they both get down OK. And as the press and photographers come, Ken sees the flashbulbs, and they Kiss.

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Another abrupt ending, but a very good movie. Myrna Loy is just fabulous in this. She was really something.