Big air and hot love

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Movie
German title Big air and hot love
Original title SOS Pacific
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1959
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Guy Green
script Bryan Forbes
production Patrick Filmer-Sankey and John G. Nasht
music Georges Auric
camera Wilkie Cooper
cut Arthur Stevens
occupation

Thick air and hot love (alternative title: Eddie creates all , original title: SOS Pacific ) is a British drama from 1959 in which Eddie Constantine plays the leading role and Richard Attenborough plays a supporting role.

action

The smuggler Mark Reisener is arrested on a Pacific island and is supposed to be flown to the mainland accompanied by the policeman Petersen and the shady witness Whitey Mullen. Together with three other passengers to get on a flying boat of Bennett airline . The pilot Jake Bennett, the radio operator Willy and the stewardess Teresa are already on board. Due to a hurricane , the aircraft has to deviate from the planned course. A short time later, the radio fails due to a cable fire , which then spreads to the fuse box in the cockpit. Reisener storms into the cockpit and uses a fire extinguisher filled with methyl bromide to fight the fire , not knowing that this extinguishing agent produces toxic gases. He manages to pull the unconscious pilot out of the cockpit while the radio operator dies. The machine continues to fly on the autopilot . Fail as both engines due to fuel shortages, Reisener can off the coast of an island, the machine with the aid of the weakened pilots ditch . After landing, the leaking flying boat sinks into the sea. All inmates can escape to the island with two rubber boats.

The group splits up to explore the island. Whitey, who is afraid of an act of revenge, is able to steal Petersen's service weapon unnoticed. He steals one rubber dinghy, destroys the second and settles down. Meanwhile, the others discover a large number of abandoned ships and two bunkers. In the first there are laboratory animals . The second bunker is equipped with automatic cameras that are aimed at a neighboring island. A countdown is also displayed. They realize that they are in a nuclear weapons test area and that a hydrogen bomb will be detonated in a few hours. The German physicist Dr. Strauss explains that the ignition is triggered by a remote-controlled aircraft flying over it and that the explosion could be prevented if the power supply to the detonator on the neighboring island is interrupted. Reisener decides to swim there. Even after a short distance, he is threatened by sharks . The injured Jake Bennett then jumps into the sea and sacrifices himself. Once on the island, Reisener climbs a metal tower with the bomb on top. Here he meets Whitey, who shoots him and wounds his arm. Reisener throws a pipe wrench at Whitey's head. This falls from the tower and dies. In the meantime, the unmanned aircraft has almost reached the island. At the last minute, Reisener managed to break through the power supply to the remote detonator with an ax. This makes the military aware of the group and rescues them.

criticism

  • The movie magazine Cinema wrote, "Harmless entertainment for Eddie fans".

Trivia

The Consolidated PBY flying boat used during the filming in Madeira was owned by the entrepreneur Thomas Kendell, who then used it to circumnavigate the world. During a stopover on a beach in Saudi Arabia , the plane was shot at by locals because they believed it was an Israeli invasion. As a result of the damage, the aircraft was abandoned and remained there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the film Thick air and hot love on moviepilot.de
  2. ↑ Cinema , description of the film Thick Air and Hot Love
  3. ↑ Photos of the aircraft (N5593V) and the wreck on airliners.net