Slattery's Hurricane

Slattery's Hurricane

11/8/1949 1h 27m 5.0/10

Overview

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.

Director

André de Toth

Top Billed Cast

Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

Lt. Willard Francis Slattery

Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell

Mrs. Aggie Hobson

John Russell

John Russell

Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson

Gary Merrill

Gary Merrill

Cmdr E.T. Kramer

Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake

Dolores Grieves

Walter Kingsford

Walter Kingsford

R.J. Milne

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

12/22/2023

6/10

After a brief meteorology lesson on just what causes hurricanes, we start with a pilot coshing his mate and stealing a plane. Sadly, that's about as exciting as this gets as we discover that the pilot is WWII veteran "Slattery" (Richard Widmark) who has been quite happily flying around Florida delivering what needs delivering - regardless of what it is! Anyway, as he powers through the sky and into the path of the eponymous storm, he starts to have flashbacks of just what led him to his current predicament. That's where we come in. We get to share those memories as his fairly selfish behaviour impacted on the lives of "Aggie" (Linda Darnell), "Dolores" (Veronica Lake) as well as on his military buddies led by the typically unremarkable Gary Merrill's "Kramer". There are plenty of windy audio effects and the sound stage sprinkler system was well put through it's paces, but the rather episodic style of the presentation along with way too much verbiage and a really rather lacklustre who did what to whom melodrama really never quite takes off. I always found Darnell to be a bit hit or miss, and here she hasn't loads to work with as the story takes us to where we know we have to end up... It's watchable, Saturday afternoon B-fayre, but I doubt you'll recall it for long afterwards.

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