Slattery's Hurricane

Ex-navy pilot Slattery (Richard Widmark) works for a dope-smuggling ring. When he's not in the air, Slattery is making time with Dolores (Veronica Lake), the somewhat put-upon secretary of the ring's leader. Only upon meeting Aggie (Linda Darnell), the wife of his old navy buddy Hobson (John ...more

Director Andre de Toth's (House of Wax) nail-biter Slattery's Hurricane entertains the audience consistently for all of its 83 minutes. Scripter Herman Wouk discloses a sharp instinct for incorporating and utilizing sharp melodramatic hooks -- from Will Slattery's (Richard Widmark) exposure of his "candy-bar magnate" boss's sub-rosa gig as a narcotics smuggler to the loss of one engine as he brings his aircraft in from the titular gust. Moreover, Wouk delivers those hooks from the realm of the ...more