No Time At All (1958)

An airplane with passengers and cargo leaves Miami on its way to New York. But suddenly it disappears without a trace. It may sound like a "disaster" film but we never see the crew or the passengers. The focus of the film is on a various group of characters on the ground who are affected in some way by the airline's fate: among them a nightclub singer (Jane Greer) and her agent (Jack Haley), a boxer (Charles Bronson) and his manager (Jay C. Flippen), an opportunistic reporter (William Lundigan), the airline's owner (Keenan Wynn), a couple (Sylvia Sidney, Chico Marx) whose daughter is on the plane and the pilot's girlfriend (Betsy Palmer). It's well done and fairly gripping though it shows its age in the way we are supposed to perceive certain characters. For instance, Lundigan's reporter is our "hero" yet he takes information given to him in confidence and uses it to get a headline story. He later demands the passenger list (forget about such things as privacy) from an airline executive ... and gets it! Directed by David Swift (THE PARENT TRAP). With Buster Keaton, James Gleason, Mary Beth Hughes, Shepperd Strudwick and Richard Crane.