Rex Reason is a Flying Tigers pilot on the run "over the hump" during the Second World War. Near the end of his deployment, he shows fellow pilot Myron Healey the Himalayan mask he has gotten and intends to give to his girl. Healy tells him it's wrong, it's a religious object, and how would Reason feel if someone swiped the crucifix from his local church. They get into a kerfuffle, and Reason injures his hand. Healy takes his place on the next flight, and is killed in a crash. Reaosn returns to the US< then back to Asia, convinced that he was supposed to die.
Director Andrew Marton's movie seems to be a partial remake of his own DER DAMON DES HIMALAYA (1935), and a lot of the long shots and images of the Tibetans look like they were lifted from the earlier movies, with DP George Diskant matching the lighting brilliantly. Reason is one of those post-war leading men, very handsome, with a voice as deep as Gregory Peck's, who doesn't show emotion in his face. For a change it works as stoicism, but the combination of mysticism and the stolen-idol plot seems cornball.
Director Andrew Marton's movie seems to be a partial remake of his own DER DAMON DES HIMALAYA (1935), and a lot of the long shots and images of the Tibetans look like they were lifted from the earlier movies, with DP George Diskant matching the lighting brilliantly. Reason is one of those post-war leading men, very handsome, with a voice as deep as Gregory Peck's, who doesn't show emotion in his face. For a change it works as stoicism, but the combination of mysticism and the stolen-idol plot seems cornball.