Adaptions
The book was turned into the 1933 movie Night Flight directed by Clarence Brown with Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Montgomery.
American composer Gardner Read was inspired by the novel to compose a 7 minute work for orchestra, "Night Flight, tone poem for orchestra, Opus 44" in 1936-1937.
The novel was also recreated in a 1940 Italian opera, Volo di notte (Night Flight) composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to an Italian libretto. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on May 18, 1940. The opera emphasizes individual suffering and was written as a response to the rise of fascism.
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