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Both only recently released on DVD, 1955’s “Blood Alley” and “The Sea Accelerate” are now available together in a single package, at a very affordable label. Each film offers a idea of John Wayne’s film work away from the western genre, and are fascinating, if not entirely successful, ‘period’ adventure tales.
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The older of the pair, “The Sea Glide”, has a novelty value uniquely its contain, as the Duke plays a GERMAN sea captain, at the originate of WWII! A decorated weak of WWI, Wayne hates Hitler and the Nazis, but when ordered to return his freighter and crew to home port, he feels honor-bound to comply, despite a British mandate to ’stand down’. Joined prior to departure by a mysterious recognize (Lana Turner, in her only teaming with the Duke), Wayne gets his mature ship out of the harbor, and is hasty pursued by a British force, headed by his extinct friend, Commander Jeff Napier (David Farrar) . The myth becomes a cat-and-mouse yarn, as the freighter attempts to elude British sea power, and approach Germany, safely.
Produced and directed by John Farrow (who had directed Wayne in 1953’s “Hondo”), “The Sea Wobble”, despite earnest performances, never really builds remarkable suspense, and there is a marked lack of chemistry between Wayne and Turner, which sabotages their romantic scenes. Level-headed, the cast includes young Tab Hunter, and many lifelong Wayne friends (including James Arness and Paul Fix), that helps set aside an air of camaraderie. Wayne, suffering from a severe ear infection throughout the shoot, makes no trouble to adopt a German accent or persona, which gives the film a somewhat surreal ‘feel’.
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All in all, “The Sea Wander” is, at best, an inviting misfire!
Far more spellbinding and successful, “Blood Alley”, director ‘Wild Bill’ Wellman’s final collaboration with Wayne (preceded by “Island in the Sky” and “The High and the Great”), is not only a rip-roaring ’sea chase’ adventure, but another of Wayne’s many films endorsing his conservative political ideology. Produced by Wayne, himself (who’d initially hoped to acquire Robert Mitchum or Humphrey Bogart for the lead), this memoir of a sea captain, rescued from the Communist Chinese to transport an entire Chinese village to safety on a old-fashioned steam ship, never drags.
The film has many ‘pluses’; leading lady Lauren Bacall, both magnificent and tough, has terrific chemistry with the Duke (and became a lifelong friend, co-starring in his last film, “The Shootist”, over 20 years, later) ; Wayne’s character, ‘Tom Wilder’, has equal shares of bravura and madness (he talks, frequently, to an imaginary girlfriend, created to serve him withstand being tortured), and the Duke obviously enjoyed the role; longtime friend Paul Fix, in Oriental create up, gives one of his better film performances, as a gracious worn doctor; and the film is extremely well paced, with tension building as the Communists relentlessly pursue the runt ship. On the negative side, the politics are stridently right-wing, some of the Chinese characters are stereotypes, and several definitely non-Oriental actors have key ‘Chinese’ roles (including Mike Mazurki, and an unrecognizable but certainly not Chinese Anita Ekberg) . Nonetheless, after fifty years, the film continues to ‘hold up’ as a very racy adventure!
At a ‘budget’ impress, this double feature is certainly worth including in your ‘John Wayne’ collection!
Blood Alley is a myth place in a period of time in Chinas past where the people often took sizable risks to survive. And with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall as the leads the memoir cannot relieve but be satisfactory! Becall was far better than she was ever given credit for being. And plays a character that is quite believable. The Sea Gallop is a naval anecdote station at the beginning of WWII. There is action, drama, intrigue, betrayal, and romance in the legend place on a German vessel that inot what one would deem of as a ship of war. Both movies are well worth the tag alone but you rep both.
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