Flight Nurse
United States
1953
90 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
The resolute humanity of military flight nurses and the courage of the Air Force personnel, whose job it is to transport the war wounded and injured in defenseless helicopters and planes to medical stations, are deserving of a better tribute than they receive in Republic’s “Flight Nurse,” which opened at the Palace yesterday.
In this vapid maundering in the love life of a flight nurse in Korea we see Joan Leslie carry on a catch-as-catch-can romance with a helicopter pilot, Arthur Franz, while Forrest Tucker, an aerial ambulance driver, contends for her affections. Using every cinematic cliche in a script by Alan LeMay that included rhymed streams of consciousness, Allan Dwan, the director, chose to depict truly heroic actions with mediocrity.
Mr. Dwan’s concept of a flight nurse is typified in a close-up of Miss Leslie sweetly contemplating the sky while a funereal voice chants her medical credo.
“Flight Nurse,” is concocted so that the dominant theme of Grade A, irradiated love obscures the war with its attendant medical devotion and dedication to the relief of suffering.
The film is revealed for what it is when spliced-in authentic footage is occasionally shown. The supporting cast of Jeff Donnell, Ben Cooper and James Holden is adequate, acting as it was directed.
A bill of eight acts of vaudeville accompanies the film. —Nytimes.com
Director
Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old. At the University of Notre Dame, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago. However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job. At that time, some of the East Coast movie makers began to spend winters in California where the climate allowed them to continue productions requiring warm weather. Soon, a number of movie companies worked there year-round and, in 1911, Dwan began working part time in Hollywood. While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.
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