Murder on Flight 502 (1975) (TV)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

George McCowan

Writer:

David P. Harmon (writer)

Release Date:

21 November 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A terrorist hijacks a 747 on a flight from New York to London.

Plot Keywords:

Passenger | Dead Stewardess | Dead Flight Attendant | Airplane | Number In Title

Cast

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

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:PG

Company:

Spelling-Goldberg Productions

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.

A Lazy Sunday Movie

When watching this movie, don't watch it for suspense, or character development, or even for the mystery. This is a "make your own fun" movie. You can watch it in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 style, making fun of it as you go. You can watch it to spot all of the stars (at the time). Or you could watch it to find out what Airplane! was making fun of so much; this movie seems to have provided most of it. The pure dated-ness of this film makes it so easy to make fun of. Can you remember a time when a smoking box in an airport lounge was treated fairly lightly?

But don't hate this movie because it's, well, bad; praise it for its badness. This is one of those movies that is good to watch because it's horribly done. The acting is horrible, the script is horrible, the story is horrible. The only thing that was done right was the casting, but, as we're seeing so much these days, a good cast can't save a movie. But a good sense of humor can. Which is why I give this movie a fairly high grade: if you enjoy pretending to be a sillouette in front of a giant movie screen, you'll like this movie.