page_title: Without Orders
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Without Orders / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is at a terminal 'gate' as it awaits passengers.
context_page_description: Without Orders is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Frances Sage, Charley Grapewin and Vinton Haworth. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures, who released the picture on October 23, 1936. The screenplay was written by Samuel Briskin and Cliff Reid, based on the short story of the same name by Peter B. Kyne, which had appeared in the February 8, 1936 edition of Collier's magazine.
context_section_description: Without Orders was directed by B-movie specialist Lew Landers, who would eventually helm nine aviation films including Flight from Glory (1937), Sky Giant (1938), Air Hostess (1939) and Arctic Flight (1952). The stars of Without Orders also had appeared in many aviation-themed films, with Sally Eilers starring in three films and Robert Armstrong in eight films.
  Without Orders was primarily filmed from August 3 to late-August 1936, at the Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale, California which stood in for both the Portland and Salt Lake City airports.  The aircraft that was featured as the Amalgamated Air Lines airliner was the first Boeing 247D (NC2666), leased from Philips Petroleum Co. A Ryan ST-A was the aircraft seen as the record-breaking aircraft.
caption: A Boeing 247 airliner was featured prominently in Without Orders.
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