Forced Landing

Richard arlen, eva gabor (the nice sister). Pretty rough copy. Sound and picture are just awful. Gabor's very first appearance in a film. Arlen had been in silent and talkie films for twenty years! In the story, dan and johanna meet in mosaque. Unfortunately, they are on opposite sides of a struggle, where johanna's father is trying to build a fort. But colonel golas is behind the resistance, which doesn't want the fort to be completed, and is sabotaging the work however he can. Dan and johanna will need to decide with side they are on. Directed by gordon wiles. Died young at 46. Won an oscar for transatlantic. That's pretty good, since he only directed eleven films before he passed away. A sixty seven minute shortie from paramount. The basic story is solid, but the film quality is so bad, it's an effort to get through it. Unknown if the film from 1935 is a similar story. The 1941 version may be important, if only known as the debut of eva gabor.