Most remembered for his 1958 version of Dracula, English director Terence Fisher made more than 50 films, mostly horror but also a half-dozen or so noirs, almost all of them low-budget and low-tier, including Wings of Danger, which benefits from Zachary Scott in the lead role as a pilot who secretly suffers from blackouts. Scott plays Richard Van Ness, who’s been avoiding marrying his girlfriend Avril Talbot (Naomi Chance) because he fears his blackouts will kill him. When Richard’s best friend and Avril’s brother Nick (Richard Beatty) crashes his plane somewhere in the Channel Islands (“Why can’t you let a man die in place?”), Richard discovers that Nick may have been involved in criminal shenanigans involving smuggling, counterfeiting, and murder. The sets are simple (aside from a climax in castle ruins), the cinematography is nothing special (day for night abounds), and the story is somewhat vague, but the film still manages to pull the viewer along thanks in large part to performances by Scott and others, especially Harold Lang who plays the creepy blackmailer Snell. Produced with Hammer films and distributed in the US by low-rent Lippert Films, Wings of Danger was released in the UK on a double bill with William Berke’s FBI Girl and was Scott’s first of two European counterfeiting noirs, the other being Montgomery Tully’s 1957 The Counterfeit Plan.