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Welcome to western Alaska; where bush pilot Mike Wein (real-life flyboy Wayne Morris) operates a puddle jumper flying passengers to remote locations – and where one false move traversing the dateline can bring you up close to the Red Menace; Russian sentries patrol the border that separates the U;S; side on Little Diomede Island from the Soviet-controlled Big Diomede territory – and Mike takes no chances when a schoolteacher (Lola Albright) arrives to accept her new position and he opts to complete their journey over land via dogsled; That caution – and the ex-Army man’s resourcefulness – will come in handy when his newest client; a boisterous businessman (future Gilligan’s Island skipper Alan Hale; Jr;) on the hunt for polar bears; reveals a more sinister intention; Directed by B-movie veteran Lew Landers (The Raven; The Magic Carpet); Arctic Flight was shot largely on location and captures appealing footage of native Eskimos and a wilderness territory both harsh and beautiful – to stalwart Americans and treacherous commies alike.