Come Fly with Me (film)

Come Fly with Me is a 1963 British Jet Age romantic comedy film directed by Henry Levin and released by MGM.

Texan Walter sends a drunk packing when he goes too far with hostess Hilda Bergstrom; taken, she accepts his invitation for a night on the town.

Aware he might be intercepted by police, the Baron leaves his gold cigarette case – which earlier caught Donna's eye – on his seat with a note for her in it to meet him at a cafe.

The cash-poor aristocrat prefers being a diamond smuggling “mule” over a job and left his cache with the clueless stewardess, who cannot race to deliver it back to him at their rendezvous.

Meanwhile, Hilda freezes Walter out, and Carol plays patty-cake with Ray, who gets demoted to flying backwater air charters for the airline because of his misadventures with love.

[b] Before her flight can leave Vienna, an emissary of the Baron returns the necklace with the message “Auf Wiedersehen.” On board, the girls discover that the plane is empty – but for one Texan in economy class.

Carol goes to the cockpit, but before she can deliver another lecture to Ray on "values" he straps her into a jump seat, gags her, and sets about framing a marriage proposal.

Variety gave the film a mixed review, writing, "Sometimes one performance can save a picture and in Come Fly with Me it's an engaging and infectious one by Pamela Tiffin.

The production has other things going for it like an attractive cast, slick pictorial values and smart, stylish direction by Henry Levin, but at the base of all this sheer sheen lies a frail, frivolous and featherweight storyline that, in trying to take itself too seriously, flies into dramatic air pockets and crosscurrents that threaten to send the entire aircraft into a tailspin.