Dangerous Mission

Dangerous Mission (1954)

Avalanche of Action!

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Date of release
1954-03-06
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Thriller, Crime, Drama
Director
Louis King

Casting

Interesting facts

Dangerous Mission is a 1954 American Technicolor thriller film starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price and William Bendix. The film was produced by Irwin Allen, directed by Louis King and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is remembered today mainly for its use of 3-D film technology.

Production

The film was also known as Glacier and Rangers of the North. Filming began in July 1953.

The film is set in Glacier National Park, Montana and was largely filmed there.

W.R. Burnett said the original script was by Horace McCoy and the movie started filming when Burnett was called in. The writer said, "It was a terrible script. I couldn’t believe Horace wrote it—he must have been drunk—and Irwin didn’t know what was wrong with it." Burnett said he rewrote the script in four weeks, and later said "it's not a bad picture".

Charles Bennett called the film "the most ghastly mess" claiming the original script by W. R. Burnett and Irwin Allen "didn’t make any sense whatsoever" and Louis King approached Bennett two weeks into filming asking for help at a fee of $2,000 a week. "What I had to do was at least make some sense out of the script.

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