Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]I have to admit that Science Fiction movies involving Planes are almost always just completely awesome! I mean, there is just something truly chilling about what happens when a plane just vanishes out of thin air, and then just magically reappears... Both with the people on the ground, as well as the people on the plane and what happened during the time that they vanished!
Now I am going to say that I am happy to report that I have just recently seen one of the ancestors of the modern Science Fiction movie that is based on our around a plane in the movie, The Plane That Disappeared (1961)!
Written by: Ralph Hart (The Outer Limits), Judith Hart (Attack Of The Puppet People), Orville H. Hampton (Rocketship X-M) & Directed by: Reginald Le Borg (Weird Woman). Starring: Craig Hill (All About Eve), Paula Raymond (The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), Dayton Loomis (The Wrong Man), Harvey Stephens (The Bat), John Bryant (I'll Give My Life), Nancy Hale (Sea Hunt), Bernadette Hale (The Doomsday Flight), Meg Wylie (Major Dad), Stephen Ellsworth Crowley, Francis De Sales (A Majority Of One), Joe Haworth (Mission Impossible) & Jack Mann (Police Dog Story).
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The Captain & his Co-Pilot taking off for a flight that they surely will forget![/caption]Now before I go on, let me say this, there is something about movies that was lost from about the beginning of the 1970s on, but I really enjoyed about horror/science fiction movies that came before that... It's sort of an indefinable quality that I feel is what made the writing and the acting in these movies so great... Yet I think most people found to be cheesy... what is this I am talking about? Well it is a sort of naive nature about the people going in to these terrifying events, and it is done so well... And this movie is no different!
You see, on Flight 60 from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. are 3 scientists that have been summoned to D.C. because even though they have developed this independently, they have created what put together would be a weapon of such a tremendous force that in the end could destroy an entire country with just one bomb...
What these scientists, Dr. Thomas Endicott (Craig Hill), a mathematician by the name of, 'Marcia' (Paula Raymond) & Dr. Morris (Dayton Loomis) don't know, is that they are being summoned by humans from a potential future as well!
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The three scientists as they are about to stand trial for their crimes against time...[/caption]So after a harrowing flight that puts the flight crew and passengers asleep, these scientists, (who up to this point are set to develop a bomb that will destroy humanity) are taken out of time and are set to stand trial for the crimes against time that they haven't committed yet!
During this time, the people on the ground are frantically trying to search for the missing airplane!
In the this movie is total blast and well worth a watch, if you are in to classic Black & White movies!
