mark.waltz
A fiery plane crash witnessed by wife on the run Ann Savage leads her into the arms of pilot Robert Lowery, a man she previously snubbed, assuming him to be a masher. She's frantically trying to get away from her evil estranged husband (Douglas Fowley) and after trying but failing to end up on Robert Kent's ill-fated flight convinces Lowery to take her with him, leaving out a few details. But somehow, Fowley finds Savage at the mining camp run by gruff Barton MacLane and it's only a matter of time before Lowery and Savage's real identities are discovered. With dangerous mountain ranges in their way, Fowley turns things around, leaving the two of them, another pilot and a federal officer stranded in the jungle with only Lowery available to rescue Savage and bring Fowley to justice.This is O.K. for the type of "B" film it is, a passable lower grade programmer made better by some tough dialog and a few amusing supporting characters. There's the camp assistant who's been desperate to get his chance to be up in the air, a cook whose goat stew smells worse than the live goat, and a payroll clerk who can't get a word in edgewise yet knows more than he's allowed to tell. A few tense moments help make this better than the predictability that you get from the moment that the plot is established. It's nice to see Savage playing a mixture of femme fatale and lady, obviously set up as mysterious but quickly revealed to be quite different than you expect. An amusing sequence has Lowery singing an American standard with some Latina party girls who mangle English much to his amusement. Lowery is a great hero, and his established friendship with Kent gives him a motive to play off of, and Savage's horror at Kent's tragedy is strongly expressed in her eyes.
