The Douglas DC-3 Dakota plane is rather splendid at the start of the film and then it goes on for about 20 minutes. At least I hope that we will be off but this one never gets going, it is rather flat with no plot and no action, to speak of. Alan Ladd and William Bendix both are flat too and they seem not at all interested. Gail Russell is fine and rather pretty although apparently she never did too much although probably her best one was Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948). I thought that Edith King in her small part was really good and she surely could have done much more. She was 50 years old and this was her first and only made a couple of others. It is a dull picture and only a burst of action in the last minutes and that's when Russell gets slapped about and Ladd even gets his gun out. Sad.
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