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Slattery's Hurricane

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1949-08-11

Runtime: 87 mins

Director: André de Toth

Spoken language: English

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Original title: Slattery's Hurricane

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Lt. Willard Francis Slattery

Richard Widmark

Mrs. Aggie Hobson

Linda Darnell

Dolores Grieves

Veronica Lake

Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson

John Russell

Cmdr E.T. Kramer

Gary Merrill

R.J. Milne

Walter Kingsford

Adm. William F. Ollenby

Raymond Greenleaf

Frank

Stanley Waxman

Gregory (as Joseph De Santis)

Joe De Santis

Bartender (uncredited)

Tom Coleman

Maitre D' (uncredited)

John Davidson

Radarman (uncredited)

Ted Jordan

Lieutenant at Desk (uncredited)

Robert Patten

Control Tower Operator (uncredited)

Gene Reynolds

Reviews

Geronimo1967

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.

2023-12-22

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