The Flight That Disappeared
The Flight That Disappeared (1961) Rewatch? ❎
Who doesn’t love a “…and then the flight was transported somewhere else” story? I know I do. Unless it’s Timeflight and weirdly racist for no good reason, even I’ve got limits. Ok, ok, I’d like Timeflight more had they dropped the weird racist angle and just went with Anthony Ainley dressed as a not racist space wizard but they never did, so I don’t.
Anyway.
The Flight That Disappeared hews pretty closely to the disaster movie - or more specifically, the disaster TV movie - format most folk will now be familiar with. If you’ve ever seen one, you know exactly what the first half will entail as the crew and a motley assortment of passengers are introduced, the folks monitoring the flight get their moment and the plane itself heads into storm trouble…and then the trial begins. Literally. Ok, didn’t see that coming.
Nicely, this takes it out of disaster movie territory and more into SF periodical short story territory and ok, it’s really obvious stuff and as subtle as a brick with its messaging, like I care about that, I eat this stuff up. I wasn’t exactly planning on dropping an atom bomb on anyone but if I was, perhaps this would be the film to change my mind. Either that or make me travel by railway just in case.