It seems as though all films have some kind of message. (Well, "The Horror of Party Beach" might not have one.) Some movies skim over their message, and some pound it right into your skull. "The Flight that Disappeared" is a film that pounds you with its message during almost the entire film.
Tom (Craig Hill), Marcia (Paula Raymond), and Dr. Morris (Dayton Lummis) are three scientists aboard a commercial flight. They are heading to an important meeting at which they will unveil their plans for a massive new bomb, one that can easily wipe out all people on earth. The plane inexplicably climbs and climbs, eventually beyond its ceiling, and the three find themselves in a shadowy world of the future. There, they are put on trail by a judge (the imperious Gregory Morton) and a jury, who represent the future people who will be killed by the new bomb. The judge decrees that they shall remain in the future world and can never return. The prisoners make an improbable escape and find the plane, which makes a safe landing--several days late.
The three leads are pretty ordinary (Lummis appears irritated most of the time) and the plot is very familiar. The film suffers from a small budget, although the future world is fairly well done. Gregory Morton is so severe that he probably would have scared me when I was a kid. John Bryant plays pilot Hank Norton and probably gives the best performance of the film as he is confounded by the plane's continued climb.
You could do much better than "The Flight that Disappeared", but it's acceptable fantasy fare.
Tom (Craig Hill), Marcia (Paula Raymond), and Dr. Morris (Dayton Lummis) are three scientists aboard a commercial flight. They are heading to an important meeting at which they will unveil their plans for a massive new bomb, one that can easily wipe out all people on earth. The plane inexplicably climbs and climbs, eventually beyond its ceiling, and the three find themselves in a shadowy world of the future. There, they are put on trail by a judge (the imperious Gregory Morton) and a jury, who represent the future people who will be killed by the new bomb. The judge decrees that they shall remain in the future world and can never return. The prisoners make an improbable escape and find the plane, which makes a safe landing--several days late.
The three leads are pretty ordinary (Lummis appears irritated most of the time) and the plot is very familiar. The film suffers from a small budget, although the future world is fairly well done. Gregory Morton is so severe that he probably would have scared me when I was a kid. John Bryant plays pilot Hank Norton and probably gives the best performance of the film as he is confounded by the plane's continued climb.
You could do much better than "The Flight that Disappeared", but it's acceptable fantasy fare.