The call goes out: "DooIey's down!"
The frozen, unforgiving terrain of subarctic Canada is the setting as screen giant John Wayne heads an all-star cast in this meticulously restored adventure drama. Set after WorId War II, Wayne pIay DooIey, a former army pilot fIying transport missions, who is forced to crash-Iand his fuel-starved pIane on a frozen lake after is strays from its course. A desperate game of survivaI begins as DooIey and his men confront a meager food supply, limited shelter, inadequate clothing, a primitive emergency radio transmitter and an impending arctic storm. MeanwhiIe, DooIey's felIow pilots and their crews launch a seemingly overwhelming air search of the bleak, uncharted Iandscape - grimly realizing that the rescue of the missing men diminishes with each tick of the clock. Lloyd Nolan, WaIter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine, and Harry Carey, Jr. aIso star in this engrossing tale of bravery, hope and survivaI of the human spirit. |