Can you help me find the title of a film which was shown on t.v. about ten years ago.
It was about an American bomber which had crashed in the desert. All the crew died in the crash but they were still around the plane as ghosts, but didn't know that they were dead. Eventually as each body was found by the search party, his ghost disappeared, until there was only one ghost left. It appeared that he would be left on his own, until at the last minute his body was found elsewhere, and his ghost was released. Several people have suggested "Sole survivor" but that was not the film. Any ideas? +++++++++ 01-04-06, 11:39 AM DorianGreyed A similar questions was asked in AP quite awhile back. Could this have been a Twilight Zone episode?
"King Nine Will Not Return" Twilight Zone episode, , Writer; Rod Serling, Second Season 1960-1961. After crashing in the desert, a bomber pilot (Cummings) is haunted by the images of his dead crew. (Fictional, not specifically about "Lady Be Good")
If not please give more information - actors, color or B & W, parts of a scene, anything might help.
01-06-06, 07:43 AM Fourbrick2 Thanks for your reply D.G. There were NO survivors at all. The high point of the film was about the last ghost's body being missing. It appeared that this ghost would have been left around the plane forever until his body was found at the last moment just before the search party left the scene. No idea of the cast, but believe it was in colour.Incidentally, it was my request for the title previously , but with no luck.
01-06-06, 08:58 PM Georgia85 In the movie are flags draped across caskets as the ghosts fade away? Was the last body found under the wing of a plane?
01-06-06, 09:24 PM DorianGreyed Sorry, FourBrick. I should have looked. I guess I got wrapped up in trying to find an answer.
01-07-06, 06:41 AM Dwight How about "Sole Survivor" starring:
Vince Edwards .... Maj. Michael Devlin Richard Basehart .... Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner William Shatner ....Lt. Col. Josef Gronke
Plot Summary: A B-25 bomber is discovered in the middle of the (Libian) Lybian desert and an Air Force investigation team is called in to examine it. The character Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner was flying on that plane as the navigator and was the only crewmember to survive when he bailed out of the plane over the ocean. The other 9-crewmembers are seen as ghosts and still appear as young men while Brig. Gen. Hamner is an older man, near retirement.
The 9 dead members don't know that they are dead but they suspect that may be the case. One memorable line in the movie for me was the comment that somehow Brooklyn had been moved to Los Angles because the character heard a radio sports show that talked about the Los Angeles Dodgers. The ghosts kill time by playing catch with a baseball.
01-08-06, 04:40 PM Georgia85 Dwight, that was what I was thinking too...even tho Fourbrick specifically said it was not Sole Survivor. The plot scenario that was mentioned above was just too similar to Sole Survivor and to my knowledge there have been no other movies that followed the plot that closely. The 2 things I mentioned above were from Sole Survivor and I was hoping if Fourbrick remembered that then we would be on to something!
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Most likely the "film" you have in mind is Bomber's Moon. A Playhouse 90 production that was directed by John Frankenheimer, written by Rod Serling and featured Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Cliff Robertson, Rip Torn among others. It was filmed in 1958 around an actual wrecked B-25 in the Mojave Desert. A complete work of fiction it was however "inspired" by the then recent discovery of a B-24 wreck from WWII. Found in the Africa desert, the crew lost its way returning from a night mission. One by one, all of the crew bailed out right before the plane ran out of fuel. A crewman's diary related a chilling story of their vain attempts to survive the Sahara.
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The last guy was not found because he died doing something under the tail of the plane, and it fell on him. I emailed Leonard Maltin about finding this movie, and even him came out without the name. Frustrating!
