This film should have been better, with Doris Day and Louis Jourdan showing promise as the "terrified wife on the run from deranged husband." I did not care for the gasping, breathless, overly dramatic voiceovers from Ms. Day - I can't believe they asked her to do these; they spoil the dramatic acting performance on the visible screen. Mr. Jourdan is fun as the psycho husband, but he is give some silly stalking things to do - like, he sets off a tape recorder of his manic piano playing in a car outside Ms. Day's window?
Imagine what Alfred Hitchcock would have given Jourdan and Day to do... The ending doesn't work for me - I would have liked, instead, a suspenseful confrontation between Day and Jourdan to end the film; perhaps, with them alone in the cockpit - having a dramatic confrontation while the fate of the airplane's passengers hangs in the balance!
***** Julie (10/17/56) Andrew L. Stone ~ Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan