A year after this independent programmer came along, a daytime soap opera, "First Love", dealt with the struggles of pilots and their wives. The film was notorious for a blooper where the two leading ladies (Patricia Barry and Rosemary Prinz) struggled to keep the laughter out of a scene where another word was substituted when one of the pilots stumbled over the line "Chris cracked up the plane." The soap opera style acting of leading ladies Coleen Gray and Julie Bishop is utilized greatly in a military drama that s rare in its usage of wives as major characters and not just as set design, but the dialog and story is straight out of a radio washboard weeper.
Married to colonel Robert Stack, Gray comes to live with her husband on the base and he finds out that she is now a reporter, looking for a scoop. Stack and Gray do nothing but bicker while Gray and her husband ("Wings" star Richard Arlen) lead a happy marriage until tragedy strikes. There's really little action until the 75 minute mark, so what you get really doesn't involve a jet. Leon Ames joins Stack and Arlen for the more military parts of the story, but this one really doesn't paint an interesting picture of behind the scenes activities of the Korean war, and very well could have been about the Second World War or even the first world war.
Married to colonel Robert Stack, Gray comes to live with her husband on the base and he finds out that she is now a reporter, looking for a scoop. Stack and Gray do nothing but bicker while Gray and her husband ("Wings" star Richard Arlen) lead a happy marriage until tragedy strikes. There's really little action until the 75 minute mark, so what you get really doesn't involve a jet. Leon Ames joins Stack and Arlen for the more military parts of the story, but this one really doesn't paint an interesting picture of behind the scenes activities of the Korean war, and very well could have been about the Second World War or even the first world war.