Themes: Daring Rescues, Air Disasters, Survival in the Wilderness
Main Cast: Rory Calhoun, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Thomas Gomez, Frank Faylen
Release Year: 1955
Country: US
Run Time: 87 minutes
Plot
Actor Abner Biberman specialized in unpleasant characters; when he turned director in the mid-1950s, he specialized in unpleasant subjects. The Looters is a marked-down variation of the Spencer Tracy film The Mountain. When a plane crashes on Pike's Peak, a group of mercenaries agree to search for survivors. The real motivation of some members of the rescue party is to strip the plane of all valuables, and to dispose of awkward witnesses. But a handful of the crash survivors also have looting on their minds, leading to a bloody clash in the snowy crags. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Russ Conway - Maj. Knowles; John Stephenson - Stevenson; Rod Williams - Copilot; Emory Parnell - Joe, Sr.; James Parnell - Joe, Jr.
Credit
Alexander Golitzen - Art Director, Alfred Sweeney - Art Director, Abner Biberman - Director, Russell Schoengarth - Editor, Joseph E. Gershenson - Composer (Music Score), Lloyd Ahern Sr. - Cinematographer, Howard Christie - Producer, Paul Schneider - Screen Story, Richard Alan Simmons - Screenwriter
