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5.4/10 • 9

1949-08-111h 27m

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The storm centre of thrills!

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.

Directors
André de Toth
Editors
Robert L. Simpson

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Richard Widmark

    Richard Widmark

    Lt. Willard Francis Slattery

  2. Linda Darnell

    Linda Darnell

    Mrs. Aggie Hobson

  3. Veronica Lake

    Veronica Lake

    Dolores Grieves

  4. John Russell

    John Russell

    Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson

  5. Gary Merrill

    Gary Merrill

    Cmdr E.T. Kramer

  6. Walter Kingsford

    Walter Kingsford

    R.J. Milne

  7. Raymond Greenleaf

    Raymond Greenleaf

    Adm. William F. Ollenby

  8. Stanley Waxman

    Stanley Waxman

    Frank

  9. Joe De Santis

    Joe De Santis

    Gregory (as Joseph De Santis)

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CinemaSerf

Dec 22, 2023

6/10

After a brief meteorology lesson on just what causes hurricanes, we start with a pilot coshing his mate and stealing a plane. Sadly, that's about as exciting as this gets as we discover that the pilot is WWII veteran "Slattery" (Richard Widmark) who has been quite happily flying around Florida delivering what needs delivering - regardless of what it is! Anyway, as he powers through the sky and into the path of the eponymous storm, he starts to have flashbacks of just what led him to his current predicament. That's where we come in. We get to share those memories as his fairly selfish behaviour impacted on the lives of "Aggie" (Linda Darnell), "Dolores" (Veronica Lake) as well as on his military buddies led by the typically unremarkable Gary Merrill's "Kramer". There are plenty of windy audio effects and the sound stage sprinkler system was well put through it's paces, but the rather episodic style of the presentation along with way too much verbiage and a really rather lacklustre who did what to whom melodrama really never quite takes off. I always found Darnell to be a bit hit or miss, and here she hasn't loads to work with as the story takes us to where we know we have to end up... It's watchable, Saturday afternoon B-fayre, but I doubt you'll recall it for long afterwards.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
drug abusehurricanepilot