The Hunters
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Movie Review: The Hunters
Summary: 4 Stars
Good Flick. A superior film for those of us that like air war films. This is about the best one of Korea and the F-86 Sabre. The star of the show was the North American F-86.Movie Review: The Hunters
Summary: 4 Stars
My Dad did some of the flying in the movie, so that is why I got the movie. He was a fighter pilot. The movie was good. The flying was done over AZ and NV.Movie Review: Great Korean War Aviation movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Lots of F-86 air combat video and a good cast.Movie Review: The iceman cometh
Summary: 3 Stars
THE HUNTERS is a good war movie saddled with a lame and unconvincing romantic subplot. Robert Mitchum plays Major Cleve Saville, a little long in the tooth fighter pilot newly arrived in Korea to lead a squadron of F-86 Sabre jets. While stationed in Tokyo awaiting assignment he meets weak little 1st Lieut. Carl Abbott (Lee Philips) and his cute little wife Kris (May Britt), as well as slang spewing rookie pilot Lieut. Ed Pell (Robert Wagner.)As an action picture THE HUNTERS is incredibly entertaining, especially the filming of the jet dogfights. Unfortunately, there's a rather substantial romantic subplot involving a sour little triangle whose points are Carl and Kris and Cleve. Every romantic scene sucks the life right out of this movie. May Britt may be beautiful but her "affair" with Saville borders on the melodramatic and is pretty unconvincing. How often do you tell a married woman after your second platonic visit that you love her? The only reason for the romance is to establish tension between Saville and wing man Abbott, anyway.
Mitchum teamed with director Dick Powell a year earlier on THE ENEMY BELOW, one of the best WWII movies available. With that movie in mind, it's doubly disappointing to see him fall back on cliched characters, like the cocky rookie Ed Pell, and a trite and time consuming love story.
There's more to like than dislike in THE HUNTERS, but not nearly as much as I expected when I popped this dvd into the player. I liked this movie a bit less than I wanted to. Make sure to play both sides of this double-sided disk, as there are a different set of `Special Features' on each side.
Movie Review: It is the superb aviation footage which makes "The Hunters" memorable...
Summary: 3 Stars
North American's F-86 Sabre was the West's premier fighter aircraft during the early 1950s, and superior to any fighter aircraft in the eastern part of the world... The F-86 scored consistent victories over Russian-built MiG fighters during the Korean War...Hollywood didn't make nearly enough movies about it, but in "The Hunters," we have the opportunity to admire this graceful and agile subsonic equipped with more powerful engines and armament systems that ranged from bombs and rockets to machine guns and cannons...
Robert Mitchum portrays the big hunter, the 'Iceman.' Maj. Cleve Saville was like death: no feelings, no nerves, no fear... In Japan, on his way to his first posting in Korea, he meets Lt. Carl Abbott (Lee Philips), a young pilot who thinks he is a bad flier... Too much booze was the sign... With 30 missions Abbott failed to get any enemy planes... His wife Chris (May Britt) doesn't know what to do with him... She asks Maj. Saville to look out for him and help him... Saville finds himself falling in love with her, with some response from her...
Filling out the story when they finally reach Korea are the first of the jet pilots, Col. Dutch Emil (Richard Egan), and Lt. Ed Pell (Robert Wagner), a rude young guy with big cigars in his face, considered as a 'little stinker who can get MiGs.' Their common enemy is the Chinese ace Casey Jones (Leon Lontoc). His plane has the numbers 7-11 on his fuselage...
The MiGs are based in Red China, across the Yalu River...