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Island in the Sky

Lux Radio Theatre · January 11, 1955 · 52 min · 6,211 words

The transcript of “Island in the Sky”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast January 11, 1955. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Welcome to Hollywood. Forces Radio and Television Service, raise you to Hollywood Radio Fair, starring Nick Powell in Island in the Sky. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. I mean coming. Meeting some Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

The Warner Brothers Picture Island in the Sky was based on the best selling novel by Ernest K. Gann, a masterpiece of drama involving aeroplanes and the men who fly them. As we shall see in tonight's thrilling attempt to rescue a crew of men isolated in the Arctic wasteland, and as our star of this that check production, we have one of those amazing triple

threats men of Hollywood, actor, director, producer, Dick Powell. Now act one of Ireland in the sky starring Dick Powell as Doolie. This is the story about professional violence and their special guarded world. They are island in the sky.

In the world of all the age-old factors of life and death assume their proper values. That's why professional pilots are uncomplicated simply. They are thinking must be straightforward, or they die violently. In World War II, many professional airline pilots were attached to the Army Air Transport Command.

They were of the Army, but not in it. First of all, they were flyers. And the icy emptiness above the homogos, in the skies of the South Seas, North Africa, and the cloudy vastness of a Greenland and Labrador.

They flew the material aboard. Men like Murray, Stananzia and Stankowski, love it. That's a non-sear. A non-sear. Yeah, Captain. So you can go to the crossbarring from Desolation Island. We tried to can race. How about goose bay?

Nothing to it, for the likes. We're gonna pick up some ice. Five of us, of course. Sure, it's not 201 miles. I think one has to ride. Well, maybe. I got a hunch who almost over the coast.

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