sole survivor part 9

[NoggleBaum]

I too am glad this 35yr memory has been revisted by the upload. ErictheKing is a good fellow.

I somehow remeber each lost sole being found separtly though, eh.. So much for memory.

[homebuiltindoorplane]

Interesting that they used a 25 in the movie, and it was a 24 liberator that was shot down, and I am betting that desert is either mojave or southern cali and thats frank Tallmanz's plane. Fantastic movie thanks again for uploading!

[TrollBuster9090]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Saw this movie when I was 9 years old. Not available on DVD or even used VHS.

[Denlamour]

I first watched this when I was very young...it always stayed with me as one of my favorite movies. Thank you for posting. It's a movie that creates many "what if" questions.....

[Mulsanne917andkink]

That tears me up: "Red, White...and Black" 

[Rhubba]

This film truly does stay in the memory long after viewing. Great story, direction and performances. For me, Lou Antonio is the stand out actor in this. I understand that you didn't have a pristine copy to upload but thank you for it, nonetheless.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

This would have made a good sequel to "King Nine Will Not Return..."

[norfolk03]

Excellent picture, thanks for sharing!

[achoiusa]

Came across this emotional movie... I am looking for another emotional war movie which I don't know the name. The movie ended with 2 best friends trying to get onto rescue flight but only 1 made it. He shot and killed his friend who couldn't get on because he would be tortured otherwise. He then met his dead friend's son and told him the horror the world killed his father. Anyone know the name of the movie?

[erictheking97]

Maybe 'The Wild Geese' with Richard Burton who shoots Richard Harris ???

[achoiusa]

@erictheking97 Yes, that's it. Thanks!!!

[elperronegro]

@erictheking97

Yes, that's right I just bought that recently and the great relationship Richard Harris has with his son in the fim makes it so awful.

[terryjohn]

@erictheking97 yes that's it 1978- r moore r harris shoots him.

saw it tonight.



[terryjohn]

@erictheking97 yes thats it saw it tonight,at the end,R moore R burten shotts Rich harris. at the very end.

[PJ3love]

@erictheking97 correct

[TrollBuster9090]

@erictheking97

If that actually happened, it was probably only because Burton resented the way Harris butchered the King Arthur role in Camelot. ;)

[darren1673]

@achoiusa must be wild geese,another great film

[ajivins1]

Surely the plane is a Liberator, what with the twin rudders and two engines? The Mitchell only had one rudder as far as I can recall and that 'lady Be Good'-video features a four engined bomber. Still, great movie, haven't seen this in years!

[Mulsanne917andkink]

@ajivins1 The "real" plane (the actual "Lady-Be-Good") was a B-24 Liberator, yes (4 engines, twin fins/rudders out at the ends of the stabilizer), but the movie was written around a "hypothetical" lost B-25 Mitchell as a subject instead, because it carried fewer crewmen (2 engines, twin rudders). I have to wonder if you are thinking of a B-26 Marauder (Martin Co.), confusing it with the plane in this film--the B-26 did, indeed, sport the much more common single fin/rudder configuration.

[Wndtalker1]

This is a good movie, with a sad ending.

Wonder if there are many restless souls out there among the Mia dreaming of a

final resting place with the one's they loved

[onkaparingaathome]

Ps the planes name is lady be good

[onkaparingaathome]

this is based on a true story except the ghost bit.The plane ran out fuel in 1943 from a bombing mission.The plane was found by a geological survey tean looking for oil in the late 1960s.They found the log book and diary and recovered all the crew members bodies except one.If u googled the planes name u can read more.Very interesting story from ww2.

[Mulsanne917andkink]

Not quite true, IMO.

At the time the film was made, the fate of the lone, missing crewman was unknown. Bothered me quite a bit, truth be told.

Turns out his body was (almost certainly) found...and buried...several years before the plane (and mystery) was even discovered.

[Charles787980]

Reply to snackman2005

The movie your looking for is: Sands Of the Kalahari (1965)

It was a very good movie.

[Mulsanne917andkink]

On an acting note: I have always thought Brad David's scene here (acting as "Elmo"), was very well done.  It scared the hell out of me as a ten-year old I remember (and most of the other times I saw it too in subsequent years).

Even now, approaching fifty, I still find it to be a very "believable" bit of acting.

The writing too: "Red, White...and Black...."

[Mulsanne917andkink]

I do believe now that the remains...and souls...of all nine crewmen of the Lady-Be-Good have been found...and properly "laid to rest."

We salute them all!

[snackman2005]

No, wasn't planet of the apes. It was a private airplane on the small side that crashed in the desert. And they had to fight off these killer monkeys. I think they were fighting over a nearby watering hole. Great movie I just can't think of the name.

[paul4opus]

Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

[snackman2005]

Thank you sooooooo much. For the life of me I could not remember the name, As a bonus I found it on you tube. I'll have to watch it tonight before they delete it. Thanks again!!

[snackman2005]

Does anyone know the name of a movie that also is a plane crash in the desert. And the people have to battle monkeys to stay alive. I saw it as a kid and it was a really good movie.

[18Vintage]

Planet of the Apes?

[Mulsanne917andkink]

How long ago were you a kid? It might help narrow it down.

Otherwise I might guess "Congo," (just off the top of my head). But I can't really remember how closely the movie followed the book, and might be way out in left field too....

"Congo," btw, is not generally considered to be a "good movie," but that doesn't mean you wouldn't have enjoyed it. Particularly as a kid.

[snackman2005]

The movie was probably made in the late 60's or early 70's. I don;t remember much about the movie except the survivors of the crash had to fight off these crazed monkeys in the middle of the desert ,

[Mulsanne917andkink]

Ok. I'm stymied, myself (it certainly WASN'T "Congo" then), but maybe someone else can come up with help.

[paul4opus]

Not monkey's but Baboons and it was a movie called: Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

[TrollBuster9090]

@snackman2005

I think you're referring to "Sands of Kalahari" (1965) starring Stewart Whitman. Where they had to fend of a gang of baboons?  Another favorite from my childhood.

[snackman2005]

Thanks again for the posting of this movie. It's as good as I remember. I've read the book Lady Be Good that this is based on. Great read

[imopman]

This was a great movie !

[tegulum1]

there is an older black and white version of this film. I don't believe it's the twilight zone episode but a full length film. Does anyone know it's name?????????

[PIGSICK1]

He's Dead Jim

[verobelmares]

Mil gracias, tengo más de 20 años buscando ésta película. por fin.

[tomelty]

Great films thank you so much.

[6olddude2]

erictheking97 -

I sang your praises in the comments for parts 1 and 8, but I'll say it again - you, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! Many thanks!

[marcusgael]

Great movie. The character of Hamner sums up perfectly the frailty of the human condition. I am always left wondering at the end of the movie if Devlin returned to the crash site to find Tony, or is Tony's soul doomed to remain forever with the plane!

[Iluthra]

I liked to think Devlin was the sort of man who would not give up, and eventually would find the bones beneath the tail. Somehow.

[Mulsanne917andkink]

I wondered too, but I now believe he was found and laid to rest (as a "John Doe") as early as 1953, by members of a British Army expedition traveling through the area (several years, then, before the plane and the rest of the crew were discovered, so no one knew where he had come from or why he was there).

The film ended the way it did because the connection between the burial of that John Doe and the discovery of the plane and the rest of the crew had not been made back in 1970.

[behblc]

Found this by accident - grteat movie much neglected.

Sad ending.

[ramarover]

thanks for posting this

[Hendrikdevuile]

I thought this was going to be too far-fetched to enjoy, but I was wrong. It was well done. Some people seem to think the film is in a category of its own, but I would class it with "The Memphis Belle" and "A Matter of Life and Death". Its resemblance to the original "Flight of the Phoenix" is purely superficial. Many thanks.

[moviepal01]

Thank you so much been looking for this one forever. I remember the ending and still find it haunting.

[BigArris73]

I saw this film when i was about 10, and it made such an impression on me then - I never liked the ending though, to leave a man behind, to seperate him from humanity, was painful. Still, a good story.

[Mulsanne917andkink]

At the time the movie was produced, eight of the nine crewmen's bodies had been recovered...and only the ninth was still missing (S.Sgt. Vernon L. Moore, apparently the one man who soldiered on the furthest and longest in an attempt to reach safety).

Subsequent information strongly suggests Moore's body was found--and buried (as a John Doe)--in 1953, several years before the plane and the rest of the crew were found. So Moore was actually laid to rest FIRST (and not last) after all.

[RobertDays]

I saw this picture when i was a boy... I never forget the history and never knew the name of the film, until now.

Now i'm old man... and i am touch again.

Thanks for uploading.

[espouse]

Great. Smashing.

This was like a very haunting.

[idreamedmusic]

Thanks again for uploading.

[erictheking97]

your welcome

[elperronegro]

@erictheking97

Thanks also, I saw this ages ago on TV and it was quite heavy and different for me at that age. Great to see it again.

[legmanpv72]

@erictheking97 thank you so much, looking for this film in ages, saw it as a kid glad it wasn't a hollywood ending, very sad, would love to seen what happend to the general