A young woman by the name of Jennie (played by Anna Lee) has just lost her job as an actress.
Now destitute and lacking in payment she can do nothing but buy a small cup of coffee to keep off the pains of hunger.
A lawyer accidentally bumped into her and knocks her coffee to the ground. He offers to buy her a new one and she's grateful.
She then sits down to a table with two other gentlemen eating what looks to be one of the least appetising meals I've ever seen.
But Jenny isn't bothered by that.
She can only look on with envy at the sloppy food they're consuming.
For she's so hungry that even the worst of meals look good to her.
The lawyer from earlier sits down next to her and notices her desire for food, so he offers to buy her a meal. But unfortunately the restaurant seems to be out of everything except coffee. So he decides to invite her back to her place claiming that he has chicken and Ham.
Before the two of them can arrive at his home, another man breaks into the place. Searching out a few pieces of chicken to stay off his own starvation.
He then here's the two of them entering the house and hides in another room. Jenny accidentally discovers him when she's taking off her coat and decides to put it down and said room. He tells her of his plight and tries to convince her to distract the man, so he can run off the balcony and get away from the house.
Jenny Jenny figures on helping the man as she understands oh too well just how horrible hunger is.
But as she's planning on doing this another group of men storm into the house finding the lawyer and Jenny holding a glass of wine and a piece of chicken.
Two of the men politely but firmly, tell Jenny to get lost. At first she's a little reluctant until she finally sees that desperate man from earlier fling across the balcony to safety.
Jenny settles that leaving might be the best course of action. She doesn't know what's going on and she doesn't want any part of this.
The lawyer was nice enough to let her into our house for food. But she doesn't know the guy and she assumes that whatever these men are here for it can't be that bad.
So she leaves the house with chicken and wine in hands. She chugs back the wine, leaves the glass next to his door and then walks off with a piece of chicken.
The group of man who would enter the lawyer's house try to ''persuade'' him to stay on is there lawyer.
But the lawyer wants nothing to do with them anymore.
He doesn't want to assist in there corruption or their schemes. Unfortunately the gang's boss Hugo Brant (played by Francis L. Sullivan) doesn't take this too well and decides to shoot the man Point Blank.
This is where the story starts to pick up. (It gets real rambly)
Jenny takes a boat back to England to go live with her mother.
But while on the boat she reads the newspaper and discovers the man she just met was killed.
She becomes all the more suspicious when she realises that she knows who killed him or at least have the general idea.
But unfortunately the Mob also has this idea and decides to send somebody to take care of this girl.
Now they don't just send one guy on to say stab her in the back when she's in a private place or try to throw her overboard on the boat.
No.
They go through a much more convoluted scheme where they decide to plant a bunch of evidence on her. So that she'll end up in jail for a while and they can send one of their other man to pretend to be a priest to go live in a boarding house where her mother happens to be staying, so that when Jenny gets out of jail she'll head back to the house where she can then be killed by said fake priests.
But then while all this is happening that poor delinquent from earlier who was stealing chicken out of the lawyer's house was captured by an Innkeeper of the apartment and is than later accused of the murder as nobody else was aware of these men being at the place to begin with.
So now he's placed on death row claiming that the only person who knows of his innocence is a random girl that helped him escape from the house to begin with.
Now there's a bunch of newspapers and radio stations in the United States pleading for this would be woman to show up and present the evidence of this presumed innocent man. Which that woman can't do because she's currently in jail and has no knowledge of the event.
Even when she is presented with the evidence of the event she's denied her claim at Scotland Yard who thinks that she's just another crazy woman trying to get in the spotlight or land of free trip to New York. As it seems a bunch of other people have come forward claiming to be would be witness to the murder of this lawyer.
And made all the worse is the fake priest who barges into Scotland yard's detective agency to then des-spell the notions of this woman by claiming that she's a philandering overly ridiculous woman who's trying to use the scandal to build up her shattered acting career.
Jenny has to find a way to sneak onto this ridiculously size to plane so that she can fly back to New York City, protest in front of their local legal system and hopefully save this man from an untimely demise.
And wouldn't you know it; Every one of major importance is on this plane.
The man from Scotland Yard, this other random guy who keeps throwing around blackmailing info so that he can try to cash in as much money. Along with the criminal Kingpin himself now pretending to be an Peruvian (I think) Ambassadour on his way back home.
And alongside all of this is this one really annoying child and is incredibly annoying pedantic Aunt who keeps trying to force him into a music career he has no interest in doing.
Now the film gets even more ridiculous as Jenny has to try and not being kicked off the plane. Then is told that ticket was bought for her by the guy from Scotland Yard after he accidentally discovers her hiding in his bunk room.
There's this weird sub romance that starts growing between the two of them that's never explained in the movie.
But ironically doesn't need to be explained because the important to romance bit is given on this little balcony on the outside of a plane where you can't hear what they're saying.
So presumably the most romantic part of the movie is unknown to the audience. We just see these two people speaking as a really loud motor in a bunch of wind or whistling by and then we just see the two of them kiss.
Then they kind of have this little bit of a falling-out because nobody trust anybody else because of this ridiculous case that's taking place.
The mob boss from earlier is now trying to kill certain people who found out he's not who he clams to be.
This other guy trying to blackmail him even when he was the Peruvian thinking that he gets a thousands of pounds off of them.
There's a weird subplot involving a half crown coin that nobody wants because it's not worth a damn. And then finally at the end of it all when the whole case is found out and the mob boss is running for his life he takes a parachute jumps off into the water and presumably dies as the parachute had been screwed with earlier. The kid wanted to dampen his saxophone he was playing that he wasn't allowed to play on the plane to begin with. (Under the right circumstances you might be able to consider that manslaughter. Though the kids under aged and I don't think anybody would fault him for screwing around with a parachute that's not even registered under the plane. Especially given that it was stolen property under the guy who used it.)
I don't remember where I was going with the story.
Honestly it doesn't matter.
Jenny's going to make it out okay in the end. The case is going to get solved and you're going to have something resulting in a happy ending except for the possible mob boss who may or may not be dead. It's implied that he was found swimming around in the ocean by a carrier. And I have to wonder about that given that he had a faulty parachute and he was falling over land. Maybe he misjudged his coordinates and jumped into the water instead but I imagine the man's either dead or near dead.
Anyways despite the ridiculous story the film overall is really quite entertaining.
It has a really good pace and the scenery keeps changing every 20 minutes. You're never left in the same spot twice.
You start off in a dingy coffee shop, move to a guy's apartment. Then move to an in-house. A boat than another person's house and then finally a plane.
Arguably the plane is where a good chunk of the movie is seen. But they keep changing up the scenery here too.
Sometimes run one or two of the bunk houses, that were in the restaurant with a bar or the observation deck.
I might have to look into this; but I don't know if that particular Aeroplane had an observation deck. You see it's based off of a real-life Aeroplane.
The Boeing 314 Clipper this big monstrosity craft it was kind of like a train in the sky. It was meant for more luxurious flying experiences and was a pretty interesting aircraft.
Supposedly only about 12 of the things were ever made and they weren't flown that often. I don't know what they were just too costly to maintain or if they had maintenance problems. I heard about one of them crashing once but they happens if any plane.
Still it's kind of neat seeing them in a movie now given that they don't exist anymore.
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