Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chain Lightning" is a story of post-war jet piloting. Matt Brennan (Bogart), is a former B-17 ace who becomes chief test pilot for Leland Willis (Raymond Massey) after the war, finds his wartime love (Eleanor Parker) working as Willis secretary and her new fiance, Carl Troxell (Richard Whorf), designing planes for Willis...
...pressurized "pod" cockpit for jet planes which can be shot upward to land by parachute and save distressed pilots. While Matt is making himself a cool $25,000 piloting a jet from Nome over the Pole to Washington, Troxell dies when the "pod" fails in a premature test. Miss Parker accuses Matt of responsibility for this accident, warning that Troxell's ghost would come between them if they contemplated a life together. The nest day, Matt lands safely in the "pod" as his flaming plane crashes. Miss Parker rushes to him, and damn if that ghost doesn't disappear...
...some impressive climax scenes: when Brennan lands in Washington with an empty gas tank, and when his chute opens out against a background of clouds at the end of the picture. Bogart is equally competent whether he is zipping through space or singing "Bless Them All," but Miss Parker's acting in her co-starring scenes is somewhat hackneyed...
Robert T. Parker, Winthrop House; Freshman Football; House Football; Combined Charities Drive; Winthrop and Adams House Basketball; House Baseball...
Tough-Guy Bogart still conveys emotion by baring his teeth in a grimace that gentler folks reserve for the moment after biting into a wormy apple. As the girl for whom he carries a torch, Eleanor Parker conveys no emotion at all. Much of the dialogue they speak does not deserve to travel at the speed of sound. To its credit, Chain Lightning uses expert photographic effects to wring plenty of excitement out of its flying sequences, suggests that a good movie is waiting to be made about jet aviation...