Five Came Back (1939)

FIVE CAME BACK  (1939)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: John Farrow
    Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, John Carradine,
    Wendy Barrie, Alan Jenkins, Joseph Calleia,
    Kent Taylor, Patric Knowles, C. Aubrey Smith
An airplane makes an emergency landing in the Amazon and the passengers go about trying to survive while the pilots work at repairing the engine. The bad news is that the plane won't clear the trees on takeoff, or the mountains after that, if it's carrying all the passengers. Some will have to stay behind in the jungle, and there's more bad news: The headhunters are closing in. A good, low-budget adventure thriller with a particular attention to character and how a shared life-and-death crisis can alter the way people act and relate to each other. Young Lucy plays a sympathetic floozy trying to escape her checkered past.