Arctic Flight

Arctic Flight is a 1952 drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring Wayne Morris, Alan Hale Jr. and Lola Albright. It was produced by Monogram Pictures. Arctic Flight depicts bush pilot flying in the Arctic on the edge of the International Date Line, involving Soviet intrigue. Plot In a small plane, bush pilot Mike Wien (Wayne Morris) flies his friend Dave Karluck (Thomas Richards Sr.) over a reindeer herd in Alaska. Dave shoots a wolf from the plane; it was preying on the deer, which he owns. Returning to his base at Kotzebue, Mike expects his next customer to be a John Wetherby, who wants to hunt polar bears. Opening a door without knocking, he walks in on Martha Raymond (Lola Albright), in her underwear. She is expecting Mike to fly her to Little Diomede Island, where she is expected to start work as a schoolteacher and nurse in the local Eskimo village. But only two miles from Little Diomede across frozen Bering Strait (and across the International Date Line) is the Soviet-owned Big Diomede Island, and Mike tries to refuse the trip, as the trigger-happy Soviet border guards may shoot at them. But no other pilot is available, and Martha has paid for a ticket, so Mike's government contract requires him to take her. So he flies her most of the way, then borrows a dog sled to transport her to her destination. A romance between the two is kindled. When Martha arrives, she is welcomed by local Catholic priest Father François (Kenneth MacDonald) and local resident Miksook (Anthony Garson). They tell her that the teacher she is replacing wandered too close to Big Diomede and was shot and killed.