Island in the Sky (1953)
Country: US
Technical: bw 109m
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine
Synopsis:
A USAF transporter plane caught in freezing weather has to make a forced landing in poorly charted wastes north-west of Montreal, and the pilot tries to hold his men together in sub-zero conditions, husbanding food and battery power while their comrades search for them from the skies.
Review:
For all its failure to depict so much as the crash landing itself, this Warners/Batjac 'real-life' drama nevertheless goes some way in portraying the precarity of the lives of the men and the limits of modern technology when faced with the enormity of nature. The interior monologues and voiceover commentary of the kind parodied by Russ Meyer are unfortunately dated, but the locations add their own impact and the Duke is suitably heroic.
Country: US
Technical: bw 109m
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine
Synopsis:
A USAF transporter plane caught in freezing weather has to make a forced landing in poorly charted wastes north-west of Montreal, and the pilot tries to hold his men together in sub-zero conditions, husbanding food and battery power while their comrades search for them from the skies.
Review:
For all its failure to depict so much as the crash landing itself, this Warners/Batjac 'real-life' drama nevertheless goes some way in portraying the precarity of the lives of the men and the limits of modern technology when faced with the enormity of nature. The interior monologues and voiceover commentary of the kind parodied by Russ Meyer are unfortunately dated, but the locations add their own impact and the Duke is suitably heroic.
Country: US
Technical: bw 109m
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine
Synopsis:
A USAF transporter plane caught in freezing weather has to make a forced landing in poorly charted wastes north-west of Montreal, and the pilot tries to hold his men together in sub-zero conditions, husbanding food and battery power while their comrades search for them from the skies.
Review:
For all its failure to depict so much as the crash landing itself, this Warners/Batjac 'real-life' drama nevertheless goes some way in portraying the precarity of the lives of the men and the limits of modern technology when faced with the enormity of nature. The interior monologues and voiceover commentary of the kind parodied by Russ Meyer are unfortunately dated, but the locations add their own impact and the Duke is suitably heroic.