[3] In post-World War II Asia, three American pilots, Neale Gordon, Bill Cunningham and Pedro Blake fly a route from Chungking, China to Calcutta, India.

During a flight to Chungking, Pedro meets Indian merchant Mul Raj Malik who tells him to visit him at his import-export shop.

Neale is still wary of Virginia's involvement in his friend's death and when he discovers a bag of jewels in the floorboards of one of their aircraft, he has to fight for his life.

Giving the jewels to Pedro, Neale returns to the hotel, hoping to catch the smugglers but Malik confronts him but is shot as he leaves the room.

[4] Alan Ladd and William Bendix, who had just appeared in Two Years Before the Mast for Miller, were announced as stars, playing pilots who flew over the "hump" from Calcutta to Chungking.

Four people were hired as special technical advisers: Joe Rosbert (a member of the Flying Tigers who crashed on "the hump"), Major Whyte (a veteran of the Eighth Burma Rifles), Mrs Madge Schofield (a former resident of Calcutta) and Dr Singh (a resident Hollywood expert on Indian affairs); the last two had small roles in the film.

While the actor is giving a competent performance and is nicely abetted by William Bendix, the story by Seton I. Miller, who also produced the film for Paramount, is a sorry mess indeed.

[10]The critic from the Los Angeles Times called the film "atmospheric and interest-holding" but thought that Gail Russell was miscast.

It's an entertaining potboiler, though a minor work ... Ladd gives an icy action-hero performance as someone who revels in his disdain for women as untrustworthy companions.

By Ladd's politically incorrect moves, he takes on the characteristics of the film noir protagonist--which gives this programmer its energy.

Ladd quotes an ancient Hindu saying 'Man who trust woman walk on duckweed over pond,' which tells us all we want to know about how he has stayed alive for so long while in the company of dangerous women, ones like Virginia, while Bill so easily succumbed to the beauty of the femme fatale.