Iceland (film)

Iceland
Iceland
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	H. Bruce Humberstone
Written by	Robert Ellis; Helen Logan
Produced by	William LeBaron
Starring	Sonja Henie; John Payne; Jack Oakie; Felix Bressart; Eugene Turner
Cinematography	Arthur Charles Miller
Edited by	James B. Clark
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	August 12, 1942;
Running time	79 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.7 million (US rentals)

Iceland is a 1942 musical film released by 20th Century-Fox, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and stars skater Sonja Henie and John Payne as a U.S. Marine posted in Iceland during World War II. The film was titled Katina in Great Britain and Marriage on Ice in Australia.^[2]

Fox reteamed their two leads and director from the previous year's musical Sun Valley Serenade and set the story in the then contemporary American Marine landing and occupation of Iceland in 1941. Payne had previously played a Marine in Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli also directed by Humberstone. Among the songs are "There Will Never Be Another You" and "You Can't Say No to a Soldier".

Some Icelanders protested against the film for its depiction of Marines winning away the local women.^[3]^[4] Henie's on-ice partner during the filmed skating sequences was 1940/41 U.S. Champion Eugene Turner.

Cast

Sonja Henie as Katina Jonsdottir
John Payne as Capt. James Murfin
Jack Oakie as Slip Riggs
Felix Bressart as Papa Jonsdottir
Sterling Holloway as Sverdrup Svenssen
Osa Massen as Helga Jonsdottir
Joan Merrill as Adele Wynn
Fritz Feld as Herr Tegnar
Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra as Themselves
Louis Adlon as Valtyr Olafson (credited as Duke Adlon)

Reception

Reviewer Dennis Schwartz gave the film a C+ rating, describing it as "entertaining but superficial" while giving credit to its direction and its songs.^[5]

Notes

^ "Variety (January 1943)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company. March 25, 1943. Retrieved March 25, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^ p.91 Reid, John Howard These Films Won No Hollywood Awards 2005 Lulu
^ Crowther, Bosley (October 15, 1942). "' Iceland,' Starring Sonja Henie, Romantic Film Picturing U.S. Expeditionary Troops, Opens at the Roxy Theatre". The New York Times.
^ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
^ Iceland homepages.sover.net Archived March 1, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

External links

Iceland at IMDB
Iceland at the TCM Movie Database

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[1] "Variety (January 1943)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company. March 25, 1943. Retrieved March 25, 2023 – via Internet Archive.

[2] .91 Reid, John Howard These Films Won No Hollywood Awards 2005 Lulu

[3] Crowther, Bosley (October 15, 1942). "' Iceland,' Starring Sonja Henie, Romantic Film Picturing U.S. Expeditionary Troops, Opens at the Roxy Theatre". The New York Times.

[4] "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search".

[5] Iceland homepages.sover.net Archived March 1, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

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