This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Douglas Corrigan as Douglas Corrigan
Eddie Quillan as Henry Corrigan
Paul Kelly as Butch Brannen
Robert Armstrong as Joe Alden
Gene Reynolds as Young Douglas Corrigan
Minor Watson as Airport Personnel Manager
Dorothy Peterson as Ma Corrigan
Scotty Beckett as Young Henry Corrigan
Peggy Ryan as Edith Corrigan
Becky Bohanon as Young Edith Corrigan
Donald MacBride as Roy Thompson
Cora Witherspoon as Mamie Thompson
Spencer Charters as Smedley
Dorothy Appleby as Maybelle
Joyce Compton as Sally
Roy Gordon as Dr. Howard
Grady Sutton as Clothing Store Sales Clerk
Marcia Mae Jones as Teenager
Edward Gargan as J.R. Robinson
Charles Williams as Car Repo Man
George Chandler as Airport Gas Attendant
Louis Jean Heydt as Airport Spectator
Knox Manning as Commentator
Don Barclay as Bettor
Leon Belasco as Russian Commentator
Frank Coghlan Jr. as Teenager Taking Photograph
Joe Cunningham as Second Man Grounding Doug in New York
Frank Faylen as New York Mechanic
Ralph Graves as First Man Grounding Doug in New York
Kenneth Harlan as Man at New York Airport
Olaf Hytten as Irish Airport Radio Operator
Lloyd Ingraham as Doctor Attending Mrs. Corrigan
Charles Irwin as Office at Ireland Airport
Tiny Jones as Flower Peddlar
Milton Kibbee as New York Airport Manager
Ann Kunde as Airplane Passenger
Dorothy Lovett as Telephone Operator
George Magrill as New York Airport Workman
Philip Morris as Mechanic
Horace Murphy as Drunk at New York Airport
Perry Noisom as Messenger
Lee Phelps as Mechanic Hiring Doug
Jack Rice as Airplane Owner Selling It to Corrigan
Billy Wayne as Photographer
Gayne Whitman as New York City Announcer
J.M. Kerrigan as Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.
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