This a little different than most John Wayne movie plots. I like the veering away from stereotypical Wayne characters. Although his is still the macho, don't mess with me roles he embraced. The difference in this movie could probably be because it is based on a true life story. So the characters seen on screen actually lived and died as depicted, (more or less). When the plane goes down the drama starts. Freezing weather, limited food, hardly any warmth, oh yeah someone is going to die. The fact that it did happen in real life makes the deaths all the more poignant and heart rendering. There is a big difference between an on screen death and an on screen death that really happened. All in all though I liked this movie.
Review of Island in the Sky
