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| Stanley Baker in JET STORM Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 |
The Pink Floyd lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" could have summed up the entire undercurrent of the British airline-disaster JET STORM, the second collaboration of Blacklisted American director Cy Endfield and Welsh actor Stanley Baker... who became a bonafide movie star the previous year in their action/noir HELL DRIVERS...
Yet here, Baker is second-billed in what's mostly an equal ensemble of passengers that he's the stalwart pilot of, trying to talk down psychotically hardboiled (first-billed) Richard Attenborough, who planted a bomb somewhere that could go off, sometime, because someone on board had killed his daughter in a hit-and-run accident years earlier...
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| From JET STORM |
Amongst the people caught inside the mostly one-set fuselage setting is Patrick Allen and Paul Carpenter as the more assertive alpha-males curbed by sophisticated Elizabeth Sellars and first-time stewardess Virginia Maskell, while feisty Diane Cilento ultimately teams with Baker as the most level-headed on board a flight that, thanks to the creative director, doesn't feel too much like a melodramatic stage-play...
Then again, the dialogue handed-off to separate passengers is intriguing enough for that expository aspect to work nicely alongside the random thrills and semi-suspenseful mainline — of what ultimately works more like a sublime TV-movie than a subdued big-screen spectacular.
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| Diane Cilento and Paul Carpenter in JET STORM |
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Stanley Baker in JET STORM with Mai Zetterling
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| Stanley Baker with Richard Attenborough in JET STORM |
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Patrick Allen in JET STORM with Elizabeth Sellars
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Patrick Allen in JET STORM with Paul Carpenter
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| Virginia Maskell and Neil McCallum in JET STORM |
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| Jocelyn Lane and Marty Wilde in JET STORM |
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| Diane Silento and Stanley Baker in JET STORM |
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| Virginia Maskell and Neil McCallum in JET STORM |
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| Mai Zetterling in JET STORM |
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| Virginia Maskell and Neil McCallum in JET STORM |
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| Guy Standevn and Richard Attenborough in JET STORM |
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Paul Carpenter and Hermione Baddeley in JET STORM
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| Diane Climento and Virginia Maskell and in JET STORM |
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| Stanley Baker in JET STORM |
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| Richard Attenborough and David Kossoff in JET STORM |
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| David Kossoff, Patrick Allen & Paul Carpenter in JET STORM |
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Stanley Baker in JET STORM with Richard Attenborough
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| Stanley Baker in JET STORM |
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| Stanley Baker in JET STORM |
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| Richard Attenborough, Patrick Allen & Paul Carpenter in JET STORM |
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| Jocelyn Lane in JET STORM |
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| Stanley Baker in JET STORM |
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| Stanley Baker in JET STORM |
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