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[first lines] Orson Welles:
[voice over]
On December twenty-fifth, an aeroplane was sighted off the coast of Barcelona. It was flying empty. Investigation of this case reached into the highest circles, and the scandal was very nearly responsible for the fall of at least one European government. This motion picture is a fictionalized reconstruction of the events leading up to the appearance last Christmas morning of the empty plane
[voice over]
On December twenty-fifth, an aeroplane was sighted off the coast of Barcelona. It was flying empty. Investigation of this case reached into the highest circles, and the scandal was very nearly responsible for the fall of at least one European government. This motion picture is a fictionalized reconstruction of the events leading up to the appearance last Christmas morning of the empty plane
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NARRATOR On December 25 an airplane was sighted
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off the coast of Barcelona
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It was flying empty
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Investigation of this case reached into the highest
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circles and the scandal was very
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nearly responsible for the fall of at least
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one European government
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This motion picture is a fictionalized reconstruction
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of the events leading up to the murder
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and to the appearance last Christmas
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morning of the empty plane
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Movie Summary
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.