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Slattery's Hurricane

- The storm centre of thrills!

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.

Release Date : 1949-08-11

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Lt. Willard Francis Slattery

Original Name : Richard Widmark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Aggie Hobson

Original Name : Linda Darnell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dolores Grieves

Original Name : Veronica Lake

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson

Original Name : John Russell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cmdr E.T. Kramer

Original Name : Gary Merrill

Gender : Male

Character Name : R.J. Milne

Original Name : Walter Kingsford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Adm. William F. Ollenby

Original Name : Raymond Greenleaf

Gender : Male

Character Name : Frank

Original Name : Stanley Waxman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gregory (as Joseph De Santis)

Original Name : Joe De Santis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bartender (uncredited)

Original Name : Tom Coleman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maitre D' (uncredited)

Original Name : John Davidson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Radarman (uncredited)

Original Name : Ted Jordan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lieutenant at Desk (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Patten

Gender : Male

Character Name : Control Tower Operator (uncredited)

Original Name : Gene Reynolds

Gender : Male

Character Name : Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : Dick Wessel

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-12-22

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.