I saw this movie 15 years ago, when my landlady brought it home from the video store. I remembered it being titled "Wings Over Alaska", but maybe that's a detail I blocked out.
Where to begin? Gladys' real life husband, Barry Hankerson, plays her movie husband, who has been in Alaska with a job. She follows him up there to take him home, but he doesn't want to leave.
Plucky Gladys stays anyways. She knows it's just a matter of time before she wins her husband back. In the meantime, she rooms with a woman of loose morals, who is the mistress of the town bad guy. The guy that basically owns the town.
The roommate gets pregnant, the bad guy does not want to be a daddy. So the roommate givers herself a coat hanger abortion, which proves fatal. This is a setup for one of the most tacky scenes in movie history. As the ambulance attendants are removing the body in the background, Gladys' husband comes by to check on her and asks her out. Perky Gladys would be glad to go out with him - way way too perky for what is going on in the background.
Anyways, bad guy gets defeated, Gladys and Barry reunite - and then Gladys happens to mention that she was pregnant when Barry left her for Alaska, and they have a little girl waiting for them back in Georgia. A happy ending! And a dreadful movie - amateur acting, clichéd writing, just bad, bad, bad. But the scenery is beautiful!
Where to begin? Gladys' real life husband, Barry Hankerson, plays her movie husband, who has been in Alaska with a job. She follows him up there to take him home, but he doesn't want to leave.
Plucky Gladys stays anyways. She knows it's just a matter of time before she wins her husband back. In the meantime, she rooms with a woman of loose morals, who is the mistress of the town bad guy. The guy that basically owns the town.
The roommate gets pregnant, the bad guy does not want to be a daddy. So the roommate givers herself a coat hanger abortion, which proves fatal. This is a setup for one of the most tacky scenes in movie history. As the ambulance attendants are removing the body in the background, Gladys' husband comes by to check on her and asks her out. Perky Gladys would be glad to go out with him - way way too perky for what is going on in the background.
Anyways, bad guy gets defeated, Gladys and Barry reunite - and then Gladys happens to mention that she was pregnant when Barry left her for Alaska, and they have a little girl waiting for them back in Georgia. A happy ending! And a dreadful movie - amateur acting, clichéd writing, just bad, bad, bad. But the scenery is beautiful!