omcusnr
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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it but I've always liked that movie where there B-17 crews (I think is was a B-17) mistakenly land in the desert and only at the end of the movie do we learn that they are all dead and just ghosts waiting for them remains to be identified. Cool and creepy then cool again!
Its a dramatization of the Lady be Good story. She never made it back, and was found, in prettty good shape in the North African desert by an oil exploration crew.
Found at: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=449233
The film is 'sole survivor', made for TV by cinema cente 100, first
aired January 1970. The film opens around the ghostly wreckage of a
B-25 bomber, but though the wreck is ancient, the 5 of the 6 crew are
still around it, playing endless innings of baseball until they are
rescued. As the film proceeds, it becomes evident that they are indeed
ghosts, and 17 years after their crash, they are doomed to stay with
the wreck of their aircraft, until their bodies are recovered and
their souls can rest.
Meanwhile, the aircraft is overflown finally, and an investigation
team sent out, bringing with them their former navigator, now a
General, who bailed out over the med and left them to their fate. He
denies desertion, claiming the entire crew bailed out over water, but
one of the investigators, Devlin, played by Vince Edwards, does not
believe him. With rigorous questioning, alcohol and eventually the
sight of the ghosts accusing him of causing their deaths, the General
drives out into the desert, locating the crew's true bailout site.
The final scenes of the film are most harrowing, with 4 of the five
sets of remains being discovered in the desert. As this happens, each
of the ghosts vanishes from the crash site - except one. The flight
sergeant, Tony, is left alone at the plane, doomed to spend eternity
there alone unless his remains are recovered. Meanwhile, Devlin has
read the pilots log, which tells him that Tony had tried to get back
to the plane, and he concludes that perhaps his remains may be found
there. He sets off back to the crash site. Does he find Tony's
remains, so that his spirit may rest?
We will never know.
And yes, it is a good one
< Message edited by omcusnr -- 4/10/2005 5:46:10 AM >
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