Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to In The Balcony. We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Plus, you'll be eligible for the monthly $1 million prize. (Not really.)

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Wings of Danger (1952)
Topic Started: Jan 5 2012, 08:36 AM (262 Views)
Laughing Gravy
Member Avatar
Look for In The Balcony on Facebook!
[ *  *  * ]
Posted Image
Still reading Wayne Kinsey's history of Hammer Films and watching early Hammer offerings. I sure hope (and pray) that this one is the worst one they produced, because if there's a stinkier film than this in the Hammer canon, I don't want to know about it. Kinsey barely mentions the film in his book, and now - having seen it - I know why. It makes the Charlie Chan films look like Indiana Jones.

Zachary Scott is the hero, and you've pretty much heard enough already, haven't you? Zachary Scott - the HERO? The weasel-faced, permanently-exasperated-voiced, slimy-assed Scott as the romantic hero? Oh, please. Bob Lippert, Hammer wants their money back.

Sorry, I'll try 'n' do this properly.

Scott and pal Robert Beatty are airline pilots, and Scott's dating Beatty's sister, Naomi Chance, who is very attractive (and the only thing about the picture I liked). Beatty disappears in a storm one day, and Scott discovers that he may have been smuggling counterfeit bills across the Channel and run afoul of some gangsters, so he investigates, because said gangsters are threatening Miss Chance.

At 71 minutes long, the film still seems as though I could've watched Titanic a couple of times before it ended. Writer John Gilling went on to direct better movies for Hammer (including Plague of the Zombies and The Mummy's Shroud). Director Terence Fisher did better work, too.

"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
« Previous Topic · The Dark Aisle · Next Topic »
Add Reply