Night Plane from Chungking (1943) is an American war film released by Paramount Pictures, and is a remake of Paramount's earlier film Shanghai Express (1932).The film was directed by Ralph Murphy, and produced by Michael Kraike and Walter MacEwen from a screenplay by Lester Cole, Earl Fenton and Theodore Reeves, adapted by Sidney Biddell from the story by Harry Hervey. The film stars Robert Preston and Ellen Drew, with Otto Kruger and Stephen Geray.