Yukon Flight

"Yukon Flight" is a very forgettable and often silly little B-movie from Monogram Studios. It's even sillier than their normal fare—very silly indeed. It's a Renfrew of the Royal Mounted film (the last of three) starring James Newell—a handsome actor who seemed incapable of going very long without breaking into song! As for the plot, it's an escapist mystery film—common for this studio.

The film, not surprisingly, is set in the Canadian wilderness. Along with Renfrew, he has a very dim assistant and together (but mostly due to Renfrew), they manage to bring a gang to justice that is stealing gold shipments and claiming the planes were lost. What they really were doing was deliberately crashing their planes (along with the pilots) and substituting sand in the bags intended for gold. This IS odd, as gold would NOT be burned up in the crash, it would just melt and it would become obvious the switch was made.

Overall, this is a silly and tedious film. Tedious because the characters are all very one-dimensional and the plot isn't particularly engaging—especially since Renfrew keeps insisting on serenading everyone—even in the most ridiculous situations. Odd and forgettable.