अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंA Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tu... सभी पढ़ेंA Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to hel... सभी पढ़ेंA Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
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- लेखक
- स्टार
- Colonel Strand
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- Noma
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- Minor Role
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The trek is difficult. The reindeer are contrary. And they're being followed by a pack of wolves. from this point on there's one surprise after another until they get to the valley of the eagles. The ending is a tad abrupt, but it's a hell of an adventure.
In the opening ten minutes of this film things look good the tone is dark, the wartime plot looks like it will produce a slick and exciting conspiracy/chase thriller and I must admit I settled down for a good "romp". However, not long into the chase the film decides to dump all this silly stuff and becomes some sort of wilderness adventure instead. At this point I tried to stay with the film but it became too stodgy and uninteresting for its own good and the melodrama of the whole affair failed to engage me. The script is pretty talky and, without character development, it didn't keep me with it; instead it throws in wolves and vultures and elements of "savage" life but not in such a way that is fun or entertaining in any sense of the word.
The cast can't do much with it and they come off pretty clunky and wooden. McCallum and Warner have the hardest jobs as they try to lead the film but, from their performances I can only assume that they were as unconvinced and as bored by the whole thing as I was. Dawson and Wood have potentially interesting characters and Wood does have some good scenes but the film doesn't help her by developing those around her to support her emotions within her marriage. The direction is OK but the stock footage is far too obvious and obtrusive.
Overall this starts out well but then becomes a plodding adventure story in the snowy wilderness; near the end it tries to look at the emotions of Ahlen's marriage briefly but it doesn't spend the time on it that that thread deserved. The end result showed potential but the majority of it is boring and flat and produced a film that is watchable at points but mostly not really worth a look.
But this is just a pretext for a chase thriller framed around footage of reindeer, wolves and an avalanche with the Swedish actors dubbed into English and most of the rest shot back at Pinewood (which is presumably where the scenes featuring Christopher Lee & Euan Solon as a grim-faced pair of detectives were shot). Director Terence Young was reunited a few years later with villain Anthony Dawson on 'Dr No'.
The safari part watching the reindeer herding and their loss in the ravine, the the arrival of the hunting eagles it was interesting, no CGI, pre Gortex and some of the cast could actually ski.
The somewhat novel idea that people are not savages because they have different standards is interesting as is the acknowledgement of how near the brink people living traditional lives can be. The herd is lost so the herders must work for minimum wage in the logging camp to scrape together enough money to start another herd. The situation is the same now for many previously nomadic communities.
How many other films are set in Lapland and feature the Sami and their way of life?
Suspend your disbelief and watch it on a wet Sunday afternoon.
A scientist (John McCallum) in Norway invents a machine that converts sound-waves into electricity. The scientist initially thinks that his wife may have been kidnapped but his wife has conspired with his assistant to steal it and sell it to the Soviets. The inventor and a police officer pursue them in the icy wilderness of Lapland.
Anthony Dawson plays the treacherous assistant, he played a villain in Dr. No.
The film starts out as a cold war espionage thriller then becomes a survival film with bears, wolves and eagles. Yet with Jack Warner as Inspector Peterson who plays disbelieving policeman at first it becomes a police procedural until he joins the scientist in the hunt.
This is an unusual British B film for the time, it shifts focus too many times and by the end has lost the plot somewhat. It does not help that film has little tension and the leads are rather wooden.
Still it is worthwhile to spot early parts for the likes of Christoper Lee and see how the director's subsequent career was shaped.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाFilm debut of Mary Laura Wood.
- क्रेज़ी क्रेडिटOpening credits prologue: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. WINTER THIS YEAR-.
- कनेक्शनFeatured in Cinema: Alguns Cortes - Censura II (2014)
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