Slattery's Hurricane has Richard Widmark as a former Navy Pilot who know is a private pilot for Joe DeSantis who is a narcotics smuggler. Widmark does not look too hard at what he's doing nor at the characters around DeSantis. One reason he's hanging around is because of Veronica Lake who is the 'secretary' to DeSantis. By the way DeSantis says he's a candy manufacturer.
All that changes when Widmark meets up with John Russell and his new wife Linda Darnell. Widmark and Darnell have history which Russell doesn't know about and history starts to repeat itself. Which makes Lake unhappy because she has a real thing for Widmark.
This film was Widmark's second with first billing. The film was directed by Andre DeToth who was married to Veronica Lake at the time. This was Lake's loan out film from Paramount to 20th Century Fox and as it wasn't her studio, Fox gave Widmark and Darnell their stars billing over Lake. DeToth however gave his wife the best scenes and Lake does perform admirably. This film would also be the one in which she walked away from Hollywood after.
It was rather obvious that Widmark was supposed to die in this film, yet the studio cheapened it to allow a happily ever after film. Sadly that decision drops Slattery's Hurricane into a list of mediocre films, not the best for any of the principal players involved.
All that changes when Widmark meets up with John Russell and his new wife Linda Darnell. Widmark and Darnell have history which Russell doesn't know about and history starts to repeat itself. Which makes Lake unhappy because she has a real thing for Widmark.
This film was Widmark's second with first billing. The film was directed by Andre DeToth who was married to Veronica Lake at the time. This was Lake's loan out film from Paramount to 20th Century Fox and as it wasn't her studio, Fox gave Widmark and Darnell their stars billing over Lake. DeToth however gave his wife the best scenes and Lake does perform admirably. This film would also be the one in which she walked away from Hollywood after.
It was rather obvious that Widmark was supposed to die in this film, yet the studio cheapened it to allow a happily ever after film. Sadly that decision drops Slattery's Hurricane into a list of mediocre films, not the best for any of the principal players involved.