Welcome to western Alaska, where bush pilot Mike Wein (real-life flyboy Wayne Morris) operates a puddle jumper flying passengers to remote locations -- and where one false move traversing the dateline can bring you up close to the Red Menace. Russian sentries patrol the border that separates the U.S. side on Little Diomede Island from the Soviet-controlled Big Diomede territory -- and Mike takes no chances when a schoolteacher (Lola Albright) arrives...