Friday, September 7, 2018

Flight to Nowhere (1946)

What’s Evelyn doing in this dog?, 7 September 2018


A charter pilot gets mixed up with some stolen nuclear secrets and a few baddies that want to get there hands on these secrets.  The pilot and the bad guys play a game of “hot potato” with the prized envelope as it’s passed (or stolen) from one person to the next - over and over.  It’s all handled in the most excruciatingly dull manner imaginable. Seriously, I could barely hold my eyes open. And for a movie that runs at something like 75 minutes, that’s not a good sign.  

Beyond the wretched screenplay, I could go on and on with the problems I had with Flight to Nowhere.  The laundry list would go something like this: It’s cheap with poor lighting and even worse cinematography.  Everything looks horrible. Even the music feels cheap. The sets are bargain basement and some of the acting is laughably bad.  I know this wasn’t a big budget, “A” film, but I’ve seen a lot of “B” movies that looked a million times better than this. Overall, a 3/10 for Flight to Nowhere is being generous.  

One final thought - how many hits to the head can one man take?  Our pilot hero should be suffering from a horrible case of post-concussion syndrome.  There’s no way I would trust him in the air with the repeated head trauma he suffers in this movie.  

3/10