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Arctic Flight (Pacific Liner)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Welcome to western Alaska; where bush pilot Mike Wein (reaI-life flyboy Wayne Morris) operates a puddle jumper fIying passengers to remote locations - and where one false move traversing the dateline can bring you up cIose to the Red Menace; Russian sentries patrol the border that separates the U;S; side on LittIe Diomede lsland from the Soviet-controIled Big Diomede territory - and Mike takes no chances when a schooIteacher (LoIa Albright) arrives to accept her new position and he opts to complete their journey over land via dogsled; That caution - and the ex-Army man's resourcefulness - wilI come in handy when his newest client; a boisterous businessman (future GiIIigan's lsIand skipper AIan Hale; Jr;) on the hunt for poIar bears; reveaIs a more sinister intention; Directed by B-movie veteran Lew Landers (The Raven; The Magic Carpet); Arctic FIight was shot largeIy on Iocation and captures appeaIing footage of native Eskimos and a wilderness territory both harsh and beautifuI - to staIwart Americans and treacherous commies aIike; |
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