or death for his fellow survivors.

Co-starred in other key roles are Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes and Gene Barry and the cast includes such capable performers as Fred Clark, Beulah Bondi, Cameron Prudhomme, Jesse White, Adele Mara and young Jon Provost.
Back From Eternity is based on the story by Richard Carroll. Unusual pictorial effects are credited to William Mellor.

Hollywood's stars are extremely healthy people, according to Lloyd's of London, whose doctors give physical examinations to players prior to the start of a picture.

For RKO's Back From Eternity eleven performers and Producer-Director John Farrow had to pass the strict Lloyd's of London stipulations.

If and when an insured actor is incapacitated because of sickness, and the film company cannot work during his absence, Lloyd's must reimburse the motion picture firm for the loss of this time.

Doctors advise Mr. Average Man to take a physical examination at least once a year, but most Hollywood stars are required to get six or eight whether they like it or not.

For Robert Ryan, Back From Eternity was his eighth consecutive film assignment calling for a physical check-up. He was immediately "cleared" along with glamorous Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes, Gene Barry, Fred Clark, Beulah Bondi, Cameron Prud'homme, Jesse White and Adele Mara.

Honors for the highest health score went to lovely Miss Ekberg. The examining doctor wrote on the star's chart, "She is as nearly perfect inside as she is out."

Back From Eternity is a romantic adventure drama dealing with a small group of survivors lost in the South American jungle after the crash-landing of their transport plane.

Back From Eternity promises to be one of the season's most thrilling motion pictures. Featuring a fine group of Hollywood names, it was made for RKO by Producer-Director John Farrow.


Starring Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg and Rod Steiger, this new adventure drama deals with a sudden and unexpected doomsday in the lives of eleven plane-crash survivors marooned in the Jivaro headhunter region of South America's jungle wilderness. Ryan, well-known romantic strongman of many motion-picture situations, portrays the airplane pilot who turns out to be less of a fatalist than he pretends.

Blonde, famous Miss Ekberg will be seen as the typical problem child of the world's immigration offices, a girl without a country. Hollywood's newest headliner, Rod Steiger, has the role of a condemned revolutionary assassin being returned to his South Ameri can homeland for execution.

Other "passengers" in the cast away eleven are portrayed by co stars Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes and Gene Barry. Among the film's distinguished supporting players are Fred Clark, Beulah Bondi, Cameron Prud'homme, Jesse White, Adele Mara and young Jon Provost.

Screen play for Back From Eternity was written by Jona than Latimer from the story by Richard Carroll. Dramatic action, compressed into a brief time pe riod, is said to parallel in some respects the recent massacre of American missionaries by Amazon jungle savages.