I haven't seen it in awhile, and the only thing I remember them saying was the Sky Chief. Maybe Midwest?
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The plane said TWA on the side.
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shareI think TWA found its way into many films because of the Howard Hughes connection. Hughes owned TWA and he was a creature of Hollywood, dating a long line of actresses through the years such as Ginger Rogers and Katherine Hepburn. Hughes produced several films, bought RKO in the 1940s and was a pal to many of the top producers in Hollywood who were in a position to place his planes in films.
I think he also understood the value of "product placement" long before the term was even coined. Notice in any film if there is a plane that is going to crash or have a problem the airline has a fictitious name. Most notably the plane we see in "The High and the Mighty" 1954 has Topac painted on the side. There aint no such airline.
"It costs extra to carve 'Schmuck' on a tombstone, but you would definitely be worth it."