Review of Hurricane Smith

Dull, meandering adventure that plods along, never reaching high winds, and provides a drizzle, rather than a storm of excitement. It's all about a search for gold and a phony pirate (John Ireland) leading the film on a course to nowhere. Stunning color photography is wasted in this adventureless period action drama where Yvonne de Carlo is simple window dressing involved in the gold search who almost becomes lunch to a rubber shark. This is one of those pointless and virtually plot less matinée style time fillers that was rushed together with virtually no script and certainly only a teeny bit of a story, even with some tense moments here and there. The men aboard this vessel are brutes and mutinous but when you have the script which ultimately is difficult to find any value. Familiar actors like Forrest Tucker and Lyle Betteger are lost inside the mass mediocrity that tries to fool the audience that they are going down the path of other pirate movies, but the emptiness of the plot is no treasure considering the 90 minutes wasted on it.