There are a lot of pluses to this navy propaganda film: beautiful movie stars including Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith; Technicolor flying sequences of super-cool flying buckets; and scenes at or over the lighthouse at Point Cabrillo, NAS North Island, Hotel del Coronado, the long-stretch of beach in front (or back, if you prefer) of the hotel, and the Naval Training Center (now Liberty Station). I highly recommend visiting any of these spots (well, you probably aren't walking on to the actual base, of course) if you're ever in San Deigo. America's most beautiful city, for my money.
Unfortunately it's all in service of a super-dull story about the flight health of various curmudgeonly naval pilots. It was like watching a film in science class. The conflict between MacMurray and Flynn seems contrived. Alexis Smith's radiant beauty is wasted. The ''comic relief" is irritating and completely out of place. And the smoking. Always with the smoking.
Beautiful but overlong and ultimately not very gripping other as a technicolor record of Flynn and Smith's ridiculous good looks and San Diego's numerous charms.
Unfortunately it's all in service of a super-dull story about the flight health of various curmudgeonly naval pilots. It was like watching a film in science class. The conflict between MacMurray and Flynn seems contrived. Alexis Smith's radiant beauty is wasted. The ''comic relief" is irritating and completely out of place. And the smoking. Always with the smoking.
Beautiful but overlong and ultimately not very gripping other as a technicolor record of Flynn and Smith's ridiculous good looks and San Diego's numerous charms.