Build a movie plot around this: How many people are on the plane that crashes? seven
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The movie opens with title and credits shown over an Antarctic landscape. A narrator informs us, "Antarctica: the frozen continent at the bottom of the world. A continent as mysterious and unknown as the other planets of our solar system or a world in deep space a million light years away. For untold millennia the secrets of the glacial wasteland were held frozen from the rest of the world, buried beneath a treacherous icy canopy. Then came the early Antarctic explorers: Wilkes, Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen, Byrd. Intrepid men of great purpose and endurance, searching for the ice bound secrets of the unknown, unearthly, frozen continent. And following them, modern day explorers. Mechanized task forces of scientists and engineers from many nations working together to uncover the secrets of Antarctica: Operation High Jump, the International Geophysical Year, Operation Deep Freeze, and now after more than a year of exploration and research a team of these scientists are leaving Little America. Their destination: the United States. Their cargo: specimens of animal and plant life from the bottom of the world."A U.S. Navy R4D (a variant of the Douglas DC-3) is flying to Gow Island, in the South Pacific, for fuel. While the co-pilot, Stevens, sleeps, the pilot, Miller, flies. The crew chief, Sandy, brings sandwiches. A sharp bump sends the chief back to check on the cargo. Miller explains to Stevens that the cargo is plant specimens from the Warm Lake area of Antarctica. We see various parts of Gow Island, a U.S. Navy installation. A civilian meteorologist, Bob Spaulding (Edward Faulkner) supervises a sailor, Phillips, filling a balloon, unsuccessfully. Dr. Arthur Beecham (Walter Sande) engages Bob in conversation. Bob tells Dr. Beecham that his contract is up and he is anxious to get back to the mainland. His one regret is leaving Nora. Ensign Rutherford Chandler (Bobby Van) feeds his dog, but is unsuccessful in teaching it any tricks. He is hung over from the party the night before. Diane (Kay Elhardt), a Navy...