An RKO blockbuster with the accent on bust. No, not that of the studio's sex queen Jane Russell, but the crash of this Korean War movie at the box-office, where it lost more than the ailing studio could afford. Intrigued no doubt by the film's aerial elements, studio boss Howard Hughes gave it one of the last of RKO's big budgets. Unfortunately, Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth and a good cast can do little but appear grim and anguished, not surprising perhaps in the face of this script, and the rather nauseating routinessness of the bombing sequences. Some memorable moments do survive: Mitchum having to fire on refugees who are being forced to conceal guerillas amongst them; a GI (Alvin Greenman) trying to teach Korean youngsters how to blow bubblegum; and Mitchum and Blyth singing an old Japanese favourite Tell Me Golden Moon.

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