Island in the Sky

“He Fought Every Fury of Man and Mountain To Get Where His Woman Was!”

Labrador in winter is a frozen wasteland, and a C-47 transport called the Corsair has just come down hard on it. Captain Dooley (John Wayne), the pilot, has to keep his crew alive in deadly cold while they wait for anyone to find them. William A. Wellman gives them one last stretch of white, with the downed plane a small dark shape on it.