FLIGHT TO FURY looks like a very cheap movie. After all it has a score of 5,3 and only eight reviews with mostly mediocre scores especially 5s. And on top of that the leads Dewey Martin and Fay Spain weren't exactly box-office draws. Then why I saw it? Well, last October I decided to finish all of Jack Nicholson's movies and since this is among his early movies, I bit the bullet.
When the movie begins Joe Gaines (Martin) is in Asia and on his way to a casino meets Jay Wickham (Nicholson) who identifies himself as a tourist: soon we see Wickham taking Lei Ling in her room and searching without results some diamonds that were supposed to be in her room. On a flight to the Philippines the passengers are Gaines, Wickham, Ling, Al Ross (who carries Ling's diamonds), Lorgren and his mistress Destiny Cooper (Spain). Unfortunately there is some turbulence and the plane is forced to a crash landing.
After some hours (it was probably filmed day for night) natives arrive and they are ready to kill the survivors and take their possessions, only to be fooled by the survivors. After some banter Wickham finds the jewels, kills Lorgren, shoots Destiny but just when he's about to flee is shot by Gaines: before dying Wickham throws the diamonds in a river and Gaines awaits his fate because probably the natives are not that far...
Through most of the first part it was very exciting and was about to giving it at least a 7. Nicholson looked like he had lot of fun and there were lots of tense moments especially when they end in the jungle. But in the last 15 minutes (as I said in the summary) the situation became confusing since all hell broke loose and I kinda hated that Wickham had to die without fruiting of the finally found jewels.
Overall a mediocre thriller only of interest for fans of movies of the 1960s or folks curious to know where Jack Nicholson started.
When the movie begins Joe Gaines (Martin) is in Asia and on his way to a casino meets Jay Wickham (Nicholson) who identifies himself as a tourist: soon we see Wickham taking Lei Ling in her room and searching without results some diamonds that were supposed to be in her room. On a flight to the Philippines the passengers are Gaines, Wickham, Ling, Al Ross (who carries Ling's diamonds), Lorgren and his mistress Destiny Cooper (Spain). Unfortunately there is some turbulence and the plane is forced to a crash landing.
After some hours (it was probably filmed day for night) natives arrive and they are ready to kill the survivors and take their possessions, only to be fooled by the survivors. After some banter Wickham finds the jewels, kills Lorgren, shoots Destiny but just when he's about to flee is shot by Gaines: before dying Wickham throws the diamonds in a river and Gaines awaits his fate because probably the natives are not that far...
Through most of the first part it was very exciting and was about to giving it at least a 7. Nicholson looked like he had lot of fun and there were lots of tense moments especially when they end in the jungle. But in the last 15 minutes (as I said in the summary) the situation became confusing since all hell broke loose and I kinda hated that Wickham had to die without fruiting of the finally found jewels.
Overall a mediocre thriller only of interest for fans of movies of the 1960s or folks curious to know where Jack Nicholson started.