Air Corps flyboy Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) thinks his family perished in a concentration camp during World War II. Trying to get on with his life, he starts his own airline and, years later, returns to Japan only to discover that his wife and daughter are alive. But any attempt at reconciliation is thwarted by a former Japanese Secret Service agent who wants to use Joe’s airline for his smuggling operation.
Stuart Heisler (December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979) was an American film and television director. He worked as a motion picture editor from 1921 to 1936, then dedicated the rest of his career to that of a film director.
He directed the 1944 propaganda film The Negro Soldier, a documentary style recruitment piece targeting African-Americans. He received an Oscar nomination in 1949 for his contribution to the visual effects of the film Tulsa. —Wikipedia