A former WW2 naval pilot employed by a Miami civilian company reminisces about his past and present sins while flying a plane into an incoming hurricane.A former WW2 naval pilot employed by a Miami civilian company reminisces about his past and present sins while flying a plane into an incoming hurricane.A former WW2 naval pilot employed by a Miami civilian company reminisces about his past and present sins while flying a plane into an incoming hurricane.
Joe De Santis
- Mr. Gregory
- (as Joseph De Santis)
Morris Ankrum
- Dr. Holmes
- (uncredited)
David Bauer
- Dr. Ross
- (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
John Davidson
- Maitre D'
- (uncredited)
Joseph Forte
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
William Hawes
- Dispatcher
- (uncredited)
Don Hicks
- Tower Operator
- (uncredited)
Ted Jordan
- Radarman
- (uncredited)
Harry Lauter
- Control Tower Operator
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt the time this was made, Veronica Lake was married to the film's director André De Toth but their marriage was "on the skids."
- ConnectionsReferenced in Native Son (1951)
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Slattery's Hurricane
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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- Dec 21, 2023
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Sturmflug
- Filming locations
- Miami, Florida, USA(Naval Air Station Miami complex)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,650,000
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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