Friday, 25 April 2014

Bear-ly watchable

Arctic Flight (1952)

Directed by Lew Landers this film stars Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale Jr. and Carol Thurston. A commercial pilot in the Arctic Circle thinks his passenger might be a Soviet spy rather than the big game hunter he claims to be.

Despite having a short run time the plot of this film takes far too long to get to the actual espionage story and it is over so fast you might miss it if you blink. The script for this film really needed a big rewrite to focus on tension and suspicion, a leaf out of Hitchcock's book would have been a good start. When it comes to the star Wayne Morris comes off as a third rate John Wayne but really no one has much to work with.


2/5

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