After Pasavy betrays the others and is coldly shot, Nick kills Van der Linden. With Japanese troops in pursuit, Major Raoul Brissac (Ernest Dorian) sacrifices himself to save the others by pulling the pin on a grenade, killing himself along with the Japanese. Nick, Po, Ann and Madame Wu then fly to safety. Having fallen in love, Nick and Ann vow to reunite after the war. Principal photography on "Night Plane from Chungking" took place from mid-August to September 11, 1942. In his review for "The New York Times", Thomas Pryor noted that "Night Plane from Chungking" made an attempt to be topical. "For this is another in the growing list of Hollywood melodramatic exercises in which the war is dragged in simply to give an old story formula a semblance of freshness. In this case Paramount even stretched a point in labeling the film 'Night Plane From Chungking', for it is by the merest of coincidences that the characters get aboard a transport plane on their way to the Indian frontier, and at that they are quickly shot down by a squadron of Japs." Film historian Alun Evans in "Brassey's Guide to War Films", considered "Night Plane from Chungking" "just another variant on 'Shanghair Expres', this time in the air."