Five Came Back is pure escapist fun -- a tightly wound survival yarn about a diverse cross-section of travelers who have crashed in a dense jungle wilderness. They're played by a gold-standard cast: scarlet woman Lucille Ball, hard-boiled pilot Chester Morris, fugitive socialites Patric Knowles and Wendy Barrie, professor C. Aubrey Smith, mob gunsel Allen Jenkins, extradited killer Joseph Calleia and police escort John Carradine. What starts as a team-building idyll soon grows desperately dark as ominous tribal drums signal a fate worse than death if they can't repair their battered aircraft.