bkoganbing Edward Bernds who as a producer/director is mostly identified with the Bowery Boys produced this northern frontier melodrama about a pair of men who share a partnership in trucking company. Bill Williams is the hands-on management type while Leslie Bradley is the front office guy. What brought these two together as business partners God only knows, but the affair Williams is having with Bradley's wife Lyn Thomas will definitely drive them apart.Thomas is the reason to see this B film, she's one piece of work. This could have been a plot for the Northern Exposure series. Fortunately for Williams he has good girl Nora Hayden.Shot on location for nickels and dimes Bernds did not splurge for color and that's a pity. Some colorful Alaskan rustic characters are part of the plot as well.But Lyn Thomas really owns this film

JohnHowardReid An Associated Producers Production for 20th Century-Fox. Photographed in RegalScope (black-and-white). Location scenes filmed in Alaska. Copyright 1959 by Associated Producers, Inc. U.S. release: February 1959. U.K. release: 15 March 1959. Australian release: 9 April 1959. 6,436 feet. 72 minutes.SYNOPSIS: Al Graham is operator and co-owner of an Alaskan trucking firm which transports goods from the small town of Tanana Crossing to the large city of Fairbanks. Because of high operating costs and hazardous roads which are often blocked by landslides, the business is in the red and silent-partner Gerard Mason journeys up from Seattle to discuss matters with Al. Trouble begins when Gerard's wife, Janet, arrives on the scene.NOTES: First production from Robert L. Lippert's Associated Producers, Inc.COMMENT: Miss Hayden and Miss Thomas are attractive lasses, but anyone who can stand a jot of Bill Williams and Nick Dennis without frequent trips to the bar is superhuman. There is some mild (if unexpected and completely phony in terms of script development) excitement at the climax, but overall this movie is weighed down by a sluggish, boring story, tediously told, with all the zip and pace of an octogenarian tortoise.

fredcdobbs5 Bill Williams plays the part-owner of a trucking company in Alaska who runs into trouble due to landslides closing down roads, a business partner who doesn't think Williams is running the company properly and wants to squeeze him out, and his partner's hot blonde wife, with whom Williams had a fling before she was married--and she still wants him. To further complicate matters, a pretty and leggy hitchhiker shows up, takes a job as a waitress in the local diner and sets her sights on Williams, much to the annoyance of Williams' former paramour. This is one of Fox's lower-budget programmers, but it's not all that bad. Williams is earnest, Nora Hayden--the waitress--is a real looker, and the location footage in Alaska helps a lot. The film is hurt by pedestrian writing--courtesy of the film's director, Edward Bernds--and flat performances by a weak supporting cast, but overall it's worth a watch if you've got nothing better to do.

John Seal After a brief history lesson regarding Seward's Purchase of Alaska, this thoroughly average Fox second feature introduces us to Al and Pete (Bill Williams and Nick Dennis), two truckers whose deliveries have been interrupted by a bridge washout. Forced to turn around and return home, they happen upon leggy hitchhiker Tina Boyd (Nora Hayden), who's trying to get to Fairbanks but ends up working at the local truck stop instead. Al and Tina start making goo-goo eyes at each other, boss Mason (Leslie Bradley) is more interested in loot than love, and a plane runs out of fuel and is forced to crash land. Nothing terribly interesting happens, but overall this is not a bad little film, and the Alaska location footage helps considerably. Shame Fox Movie Channel is airing this Regalscope feature in pan and scan, though.