Desperate Search

Desperate Search is a 1952 adventure film directed by Joseph H. Lewis from a novel by Arthur Mayse. It stars Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina and Keenan Wynn in a drama revolving around two lost children in the Canadian north.

Tensions mount as the children face the danger of exposure and a mountain lion that begins to track them while the searchers themselves are in conflict as the hotshot pilot Stead creates problems with her constant efforts to take over the search. A final effort sees a reconciliation and a successful rescue in the nick of time.As an example of MGMs effort to create a streamlined, lowbudget drama, the action in Desperate Search was pared down to the essential dramatic elements of a search for downed children. Although authentic props were used, including the fictional Canadian Western Airways Douglas DC3, most of the aerial scenes were stock footage. The use of an aircraft painted as CFHGO allowed the studio to merge aerial footage of the prototype Noorduyn Norseman which first flew on November 14, 1935, and was subsequently hired by Warner Brothers in the summer of 1941 for the filming of Captains of the Clouds in the North Bay area of Ontario and carried the temporary registration, CFHGO during the filming. ........

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