A rarity for connoisseurs both of Frank Capra films and of the work of that queen of screen screamers, Fay Wray. Look hard at the snow scenes in this story of early aviators battling to make it to the South Pole. The film was actually shot at the height of summer and the actors, sweating in fur parkas, are being bombarded by wind machines blowing bleached cornflakes into their faces in 90-degree heat. The film itself, a mixture of exciting action scenes and tedious stretches of dialogue, launched both Capra and his studio, Columbia, into the big time, there to stay.

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