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Island in the Sky (1953)
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5 September 1953 (USA)
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A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley, must...
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John Wayne crashes and almost freezes to death
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Wayne | ... | Capt. Dooley |
 | Lloyd Nolan | ... | Captain Stutz |
| Walter Abel | ... | Col. Fuller |
| James Arness | ... | Mac McMullen, pilot |
| Andy Devine | ... | Willie Moon, pilot |
| Allyn Joslyn | ... | J.H. Handy, pilot |
| Jimmy Lydon | ... | Murray, Dooley's navigator (as James Lydon) |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Ralph Hunt, Moon's co-pilot |
| Hal Baylor | ... | Stankowski, Dooley's engineer |
| Sean McClory | ... | Frank Lovatt, Dooley's co-pilot |
| Wally Cassell | ... | D'Annunzia, Dooley's radioman |
| Gordon Jones | ... | Walrus |
| Frank Fenton | ... | Capt. Turner |
| Robert Keys | ... | Maj. Ditson |
| Sumner Getchell | ... | Lt. Cord |
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109 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (WarnerPhonic/RCA)
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The general plot is based on a true story that the author, Ernest Gann related in his 1961 autobiographical book about his flying career, "Fate is the Hunter". He and other pilots searched successfully for a lost fellow pilot in the wilds of northern Canada during World War II.
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Miscellaneous: Just before their plane goes down, when Wayne and the co-pilot look out the windows, the wings are covered in ice, and the fuselage and windows are covered in snow - the camera then pans to a full view of the plane and there is no snow or ice anywhere. After the plane lands there is only a small amount of snow on it.
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Capt. Dooley:
They're coming, boys. Boys, they're coming. Boys, they're coming!
[planes fly apast]
Capt. Dooley: I guess we're awful hard to see down here. Harder than we thought.
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[planes fly apast]
Capt. Dooley: I guess we're awful hard to see down here. Harder than we thought.
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Version of Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
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This is one of my husband's favorite films, but he won't write reviews so it's up to me. Wayne and his crew crash in a bitterly cold mountainous region, and spend the rest of the film trying to contact someone to rescue them. Their radio is out, and all they have is a hand-cranked signal device that must be continuously operated if they have a chance of being found. They slowly lose crewmen as the hours go by to injuries and the cold. Will they be rescued?
We've got an old copy of "Island in the Sky" on tape or I would never have been able to write this review since it was made before I was born. This film is one of the Wayne estate's hostage's; it's mired in legal battles and who knows when it will ever be out. The same used to be true of "McClintock", but that eventually came out, so there is hope.