The Flight That Disappeared (1961)
Written by Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054881/
Just a good old B movie with a profound message to us present day earthlings from the masters of the cosmos. They may be speaking to you!!!
A transcontinental flight from Los Angeles to Washington DC, carrying three top scientists, unexplained begins a climb to 10 miles up. With all other passengers’ unconscious, the scientists find themselves in a dimension where time does not exist. There they are put on trial by citizens of the future for their potential involvement in the creation of “the ultimate weapon.”
I passed by this film a few times. It is Sunday so I took a chance. I love when I do this because I always find some interesting B movies that are better than most films coming out today.
The Flight That Disappeared has that melodrama drive-in movie feel to it. I like that. The message of the film has a powerful anti-nuclear weapons motif.
The big film Contact written by Carol Sagon kind of rips this film off, if only indirectly. SO here we go…the future comes to the present, out of time and space, to warn us about the destructive forces of building weapons used in war that are fucking insane. Happily, the scientists and lobbyists come to their senses and listen to what has been told to them and destroy all of their notes.
I wish this was the case in the real world. The three main characters have a dream, similar to a near death experience, and see the destruction of life on this planet;
A scientist, a mathematician and a scientist/ lobbyist.
The mathematician is a sexy dame too with a beauty mark above her left cheek. Smart, pretty but not too quick. Sorry no sex scenes in the bathroom and no waitresses with push-up bras.
Good acting too!!
Do you ever not like hearing this song?
