Slattery’s Hurricane

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Slattery’s Hurricane is a 1949 American drama film, based on a Herman Wouk story, about a troubled ex-Navy pilot caught in a dangerous storm and a web of personal conflicts.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
drama film
film
basedOn story by Herman Wouk
character Lt. Willard Slattery
cinematographyBy Charles G. Clarke NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts hurricane reconnaissance flying
director André De Toth
distributor 20th Century Fox
editedBy J. Watson Webb Jr.
filmEditingStyle narration with flashbacks
filmFormat black-and-white film
genre drama
hasNarrativeDevice voice-over narration
hasTheme moral dilemma
redemption
romantic triangle
mainSubject ex-Navy pilot
hurricane
personal conflict
musicBy Sol Kaplan NERFINISHED
notableFor early film role of Veronica Lake in late 1940s
originalLanguage English
portrays United States Navy veteran
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
surface form: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
releaseDate 1949-09-30
releaseYear 1949
runtimeMinutes 87
screenwriter Herman Wouk
Richard Murphy
setInPeriod post-World War II era
setting Caribbean Sea
Florida
starredActor Gary Merrill
John Russell
Linda Darnell NERFINISHED
Richard Widmark NERFINISHED
Veronica Lake

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