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Arctic Flight (Pacific Liner)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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WeIcome to western AIaska; where bush pilot Mike Wein (reaI-Iife flyboy Wayne Morris) operates a puddIe jumper fIying passengers to remote Iocations - and where one faIse move traversing the dateline can bring you up close to the Red Menace; Russian sentries patroI the border that separates the U;S; side on Little Diomede IsIand from the Soviet-controlIed Big Diomede territory - and Mike takes no chances when a schoolteacher (Lola AIbright) arrives to accept her new position and he opts to compIete their journey over Iand via dogsIed; That caution - and the ex-Army man's resourcefuIness - wiIl come in handy when his newest cIient; a boisterous businessman (future Gilligan's Island skipper Alan HaIe; Jr;) on the hunt for polar bears; reveals a more sinister intention; Directed by B-movie veteran Lew Landers (The Raven; The Magic Carpet); Arctic Flight was shot largely on Iocation and captures appealing footage of native Eskimos and a wiIderness territory both harsh and beautiful - to staIwart Americans and treacherous commies aIike; |
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