Robot Pilot

(1941)

64 minutes.

Action / Drama / Romance / Spy Intrigue / Suspense

aka "Emergency Landing"

Directed by William Beaudine

Cast:

Forrest Tucker as Jerry Barton 
Carol Hughes as Betty Lambert 
Evelyn Brent as Maude Lambert 
Emmett Vogan as 'Doc' Williams 
William Halligan as George B. Lambert 
George Sherwood as Jones 
Thornton Edwards as Pedro 
I. Stanford Jolley as Karl 
Stanley Price as Otto  
Jack Lescoulie as Captain North  
Paul Scott as Colonel Lemon 
Billy Curtis as Midget Judge

Because of a backlog of war orders, the Lambert Airplane factory is unable to try out the robot-controlled plane developed by test pilot Jerry Barton and weather bureau observer, ‘Doc’ Williams.  The pair lies in wait for factory owner George B. Lambert while he is playing golf with his spoiled debutante daughter Betty, and sends up their radio-controlled model where Lambert cannot fail to notice it.  But Jerry sets the model down in a pool of water and douses Betty.  Lambert authorizes Jerry and Doc to test their remote-controlled robot pilot on one of his planes for the army.