The plane flight was sabotaged - the captain (Harold Macintosh) had been killed and replaced in "an operation designed to bring the plane down and make it look like an accident.Don Birnam (Ray Milland) and his devoted brother Wick (Phillip Terry, Joan Crawford""s ex-husband #3) are inside their shared, top floor apartment packing for a proposed five-day, extended "long wonderful weekend" trip by train o a country farm where there will be "trees and grass and sweet cider and buttermilk, and water from that well that""s colder than any other.With nervous energy and overstated hyperbole in her emotional speech, she shows off her green nail polish (calling it "divine decadence") and love of cigarettes.Then, without Connie""s approval, and as an attempt o play Cupid, Mr.Dingle sublet out half ofhishalf of the apartment to clean-cut, handsome, young aviation expert and Air Force airplane mechanic Joe Carter (Joel McCrea), in Washington DC on special assignment-duty before being shipped out to Africa.