497e39180f In 1952,the Korean War rages on, American officers land in Kyoto. Among them are Major Ceve Saville, assigned to a fighter squadron, and Lieutenant Carl Abbott. The latter neglects his charming wife Kristina, who is sinking into bitterness. In Korea, Saville meets again Colonel Dutch Imil, a former brother in armswellother friends. Back in Japan Saville falls in love with forsaken Kristina, which arouses Abbott&#39;s jealousy. The two men turn into implacable rivals. But during a mission against Chinese Migs, Abbott is hurt and Saville decides to rescue him… In 1952, during the Korean War, two American pilots become bitter enemies over the same woman but must shelf their personal feud when confronted by deadly Chinese MIG fighter jets in battle. The Hunters, 1958. *Spoiler/plot- During the Korean War an older WW2 veteran flier, Major Seville comes to a new F-86 jet fighter wing. Major Seville&#39;s life takes a nose dive when he fails in love with his wingman&#39;s cute blond wife. He must cope with that dilemma and also dealing with a loud mouthed rookie flier in a daring rescue mission that threatens all their lives in enemy territory.<br/><br/>*Special Stars- Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Lee Phillips, Richard Egan, May Britt.<br/><br/>*Theme- Ethics and morals means for something in one&#39;s life. <br/><br/>*Trivia/location/goofs- Outstanding fighter flying sequences. <br/><br/>*Emotion- Rather a trite simplistic plot, but the Air Force personnel scenes keeps the pace watchable. Robert Wagner steals all his scenes from the other stars in this filmthe &#39;hip&#39; pilot. The wingman&#39;s roleLieutenant Abbott almost disappears in this film with nothing put into it by the performer, Lee Phillips. Robert Mitchum and Richard Egan have good antagonistic chemistryold WW2 fighter pilot buddies.<br/><br/>*Based on- Best selling novel, by fighter pilot, James Salter. The first 2/3 of this film was very good. There were a lot of exceptional airplane flying sequences in the film–with lots of nice Technicolor and realism. I liked this, especially since there aren&#39;t that many films about the Korean War. The rest of this 2/3 was made up of a romance that was very soap opera-like. It wasn&#39;t bad, but also wasn&#39;t particularly necessary. I&#39;d give this part of the film a 7 or even 8.<br/><br/>The final 1/3 of the film is just stupid–which is amazing,the film had been very realistic and believable up until then. However, in a dopey sequence, one fighter pilot is shot down behind enemy lines and his commander deliberately crashes his F-86 fighter in order to try to rescue this downed pilot (it&#39;s just them versus the combined North Korean and Chinese armies)!! This is insane to say the least and making such a belly landing was NOT easy like it looked in the film. Then, when a 3rd American fighter plane was shot down in this same sequence when it was making very low strafing runs (just to help save one pilot–and not a very good one at that!), I groaned with annoyance. Then, these 3 pilots trek across North Korea justeasycan be!! Duh, this section of the film was just terrible and should earn a 2–at best.<br/><br/>Overall, I&#39;d give the film a 6. It could have been so much better and I was saddened that Robert Mitchum agreed to be in such a film! <br/><br/>By the way, since I am a huge plane buff, here are some final technical comments. In one scene, an F-86 fighter plane is landing. Instead of showing an F-86 blowing up on landing, the plane instantly becomes an F-100–an entirely different plane. This is very sloppy and very noticeable. Did the film makers think the audience was THAT stupid?! However, the film makers using F-84s instead of Russian Mig-15 fighters is more forgivable–it isn&#39;t like Hollywood had modern Russian fighter planes sitting around waiting to be used in films!
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