The Dawn Express (1942)
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton (Michael Wilding or Tom Fielding (William Bakewell), knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo (Constance Worth, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy (Anne Nagel) and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
DEATH RIDES THE AIRWAYS!
Tom Fielding: Yes, I know what I'm doing.
Sunset Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA
(Studio)
The earliest documented telecast of this film in the New York City area occurred Monday 21 January 1946 on pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1); in Philadelphia and Washington DC it was first telecast Saturday 13 November 1948 on WFIL (Channel 6) and on WMAL (Channel 7), in Detroit Wednesday 30 March 1949 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Albuquerque Saturday 16 April 1949 on KOB (Channel 4), in Baltimore Wednesday 4 May 1949 on WAAM (Channel 13), in Cincinnati Friday 27 May 1949 on WKRC (Channel 11), in Atlanta Sunday 25 September 1949 on WAGA (Channel 5), and in Los Angeles Thursday 2 February 1950 on KTLA (Channel 5).