Set against the awesome backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness, a disillusioned FBI agent decides to retire and join his buddy running an air frieght business. When his friend is murdered and unjustly branded a bootlegger, the former agent sets out to clear his friend's name.
Practical Effects
Actual Alaskan locations make this look 3x the budget it was.
Acting
John Denver's earnestness somehow works as disillusioned agent.
Director
Robert Day
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was John Denver's final dramatic role before his death in 1997; he reportedly did his own flying scenes because of course he did.
Part of a brief late-80s wave of 'Alaska as mystical frontier' TV movies that collapsed once Northern Exposure proved you could actually be weird there.
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