Iceland (film)

Iceland
Directed by	H. Bruce Humberstone
Produced by	William LeBaron
Written by	Robert Ellis Helen Logan
Starring	Sonja Henie John Payne Jack Oakie Felix Bressart Eugene Turner
Cinematography	Arthur Charles Miller
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox
Release date(s)	12 August 1942
Running time	79 min.
Country	USA
Language	English

Iceland (1942) is a 20th Century Fox musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone set in Iceland, starring 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.^[1]

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.

Some Icelanders protested against the film for its depiction of Marines winning away the local women.^[2][3] Henie's on-ice partner during the filmed skating sequences was 1940/41 U.S. Champion Eugene Turner.

Notes

1. ^ p.91 Reid, John Howard These Films Won No Hollywood Awards2005 Lulu
2. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F05EFDA1339E33BBC4D52DFB6678389659EDE
3. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19421105&id=F-cMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DWoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2607,6749380

External links

• Iceland at IMDB
• New York Times review http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F05EFDA1339E33BBC4D52DFB6678389659EDE