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6.4/10 • 36

1964-11-081h 46m

Drama

He played with death to prove a theory

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Directors
Ralph Nelson
Editors
Robert L. Simpson

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  1. Glenn Ford

    Glenn Ford

    Sam McBane

  2. Jane Russell

    Jane Russell

    Self

  3. Rod Taylor

    Rod Taylor

    Captain Jack Savage

  4. Suzanne Pleshette

    Suzanne Pleshette

    Martha Webster

  5. Nancy Kwan

    Nancy Kwan

    Sally Fraser

  6. Wally Cox

    Wally Cox

    Ralph Bundy

  7. Nehemiah Persoff

    Nehemiah Persoff

    Ben Sawyer

  8. Mark Stevens

    Mark Stevens

    Mickey Doolan

  9. Max Showalter

    Max Showalter

    Dan Crawford

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CinemaSerf

Feb 17, 2024

6/10

When an airline tragedy kills fifty-seven people, it falls to investigator "McBane" (Glenn Ford) to get to the bottom of things. He has precious little to go on save for a report from the pilot claiming an engine fire before silence then the plane hit the ground. One of the survivors, the stewardess "Sally" (Nancy Kwan) has slightly conflicting information about the crash so "McBane" assembles the wreckage and he can't make either story work - something's not right! The absence of any clear technical fault suggests to all the it's his wartime friend "Savage" (Rod Taylor) who was at fault - but he's not buying that. In an effort to clear the man and get to the truth, he puts his own reputation on the line and makes quite a few unsavoury discoveries along the way before he concludes another flight might be the only solution. Ford is quite good here - there's a decent one-two at the inquiry with Bert Freed's opposing counsel "Dillon" but for a movie about planes, we have remarkably little action going on. A bit of simulation now and again, but otherwise this is a rather dry story that unfolds in a pretty pedestrian fashion, with loads of chat and not so much substance to the plot. The pretty wooden Taylor doesn't really feature very often and by the conclusion, we were on a flightpath of inevitability that really underwhelmed.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
airplanebased on novel or bookstewardessinvestigationaviationairplane crashlos angeles, californiapilot error