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Director:
George McCowan
Writer:
David P. Harmon (written by)
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Release Date:
21 November 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller more
Plot:
Left in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 -- and the warning is received a day early. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Tacky whodunit at 38,000 ft. more (20 total)

Cast

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Ralph Bellamy ... Dr. Kenyon Walker
Polly Bergen ... Mona Briarly

Theodore Bikel ... Otto Gruenwaldt
Sonny Bono ... Jack Marshall
Dane Clark ... Ray Garwood
Laraine Day ... Claire Garwood
Fernando Lamas ... Paul Barons
George Maharis ... Robert Davenport

Farrah Fawcett ... Karen White (as Farrah Fawcett-Majors)
Hugh O'Brian ... Detective Daniel Myerson
Molly Picon ... Ida Goldman
Walter Pidgeon ... Charlie Parkins

Robert Stack ... Captain Larkin

Brooke Adams ... Vera Franklin

Danny Bonaduce ... Millard Kensington
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16 | UK:PG
Company:
Spelling-Goldberg Productions more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: When the plane lands in London, the sky is shown at dawn, yet when the plane finishes its taxiing, it is night. Given the time-frame of the movie, the flight should be landing in the morning. more

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Tacky whodunit at 38,000 ft., 7 June 2009
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Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

747 en-route to London from New York is discovered to have a psychopath on board. Spelling-Goldberg TV-movie apes the theatrical plane-disaster films which were all the rage throughout the 1970s. The cast is a bizarre mixture of old and new faces, with Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Brooke Adams as stewardesses, Sonny Bono as a has-been musician, Polly Bergen as a flirtatious, drunken writer, Molly Picon and Walter Pidgeon as chummy oldsters, Hugh O'Brian (looking like Hugh Hefner) as a police detective, Danny Bonaduce as a 13-year-old prankster, and Robert Stack in the Charlton Heston role of the no-nonsense pilot (there are two other Stacks listed in the credits, perhaps making this a family affair). The low-budget doesn't allow the performers much to room to emote, with most of the in-flight action confined to First Class and the cockpit. There's also some hideous stock footage of emergency vehicles on the ground, as well as tiresome sidebars to George Maharis playing a security chief at Kennedy Airport with a toothache. The mystery surrounding stolen money gets muddled up alongside chatter about a bank robbery and a cop who was murdered, and a plot twist involving Farrah's character is just shucked off at the end. There's dumb-fun in watching this thing play out--if you're not too demanding--though one persistent question remains: why was the priest wearing fingernail polish?

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