One of the poignant film""s posters declared it:"A love story of today""s love and laughter."At the time, it was the longest and most expensive Hollywood film since producer David O.Selznick""s ownGone with the Wind (1939).Producer David O.Selznick""s lavish film was an attempt to outdo his previous classic 1939 epic and Best Picture winner, and it was his first production since his other Best Picture Oscar winnerRebecca (1940).Kirk speculated that he might have been chosen for Starfleet""s first 5-year exploratory mission into uncharted deep space, but Spock was less sure.A group of courier-aviators in a mythical outpost in South America (in a confined, tropical area centered around a kindly Dutchman""s bar), led by the flinty and often unlikeably rude "Papa" (Cary Grant), face hazards and mortality every day as they fly over fog-shrouded Andes mountains to deliver the mail within a banana republic.However, it was actually Lao""s air-freight plane piloted by his hoods.As they slept in the back of the plane during the flight, Lao""s pilots dumped fuel from the plane and then parachuted to safety ("No one""s flying the plane!" Willie screamed)." AfterDaily PlanetEditor in Chief Perry White (Laurence Fishburne) heard of the incident nearby, he declared the paper""s next headline to his assistant Jenny Jurwich (Rebecca Buller): "End of Love Affair With Man In the Sky?" Reporter Clark Kent looked up at White with a disturbed look.