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Written by James M. Tate / 5/26/2021 / No comments / airplane , dane clark , disaster , ensemble , farrah fawcett , george maharis , george mccowan , hugh o'brien , mystery , robert stack , seventies , sonny bono , thriller , tv movie

FARRAH FAWCETT SERVES AIRLINE MYSTERY 'MURDER ON FLIGHT 502'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVwr8ThObhvKnAFV3EYZcpjxzu_r2T9TOwrhku1JJGSF_HTZayUheymSqJ_KL38VuwL8oif1gHorBvtVWvUZCPZd8c8q01KYCAfOkGgiudmu_AYteuy6pe9QqIPCAwONJKHDCKsxBWSrRqqVwywhS6AsLD_C0sSPK2T0ZzHsuaUlqnlX95Jfz-JQ-pg/s1206/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.02.32%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1206" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVwr8ThObhvKnAFV3EYZcpjxzu_r2T9TOwrhku1JJGSF_HTZayUheymSqJ_KL38VuwL8oif1gHorBvtVWvUZCPZd8c8q01KYCAfOkGgiudmu_AYteuy6pe9QqIPCAwONJKHDCKsxBWSrRqqVwywhS6AsLD_C0sSPK2T0ZzHsuaUlqnlX95Jfz-JQ-pg/w400-h311/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%202.02.32%20AM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Farrah Fawcett in Murder on Flight 502 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Different than most airline disaster flicks in that a gun's drawn literally minutes before the New York to England 747 makes a landing...</p><p>But MURDER ON FLIGHT 502 is really a whodunnit, and for a mystery it's pretty great; for a thriller it's surprisingly taut; as a TV movie it's creatively shot by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/01/borden-frogs.html">FROGS</a> director George McCowan and, like the AIRPORT franchise, there's a B-list of ensemble actors ranging from Laraine Day to Dane Clark to Fernando Lamas, Danny Bonaduce, Hugh O'Brien, Theodore Bikel, Walter Pigeon, and Sonny Bono, a has-been rocker romancing the girl-next-door... </p><p></p><p></p><p>While the plane itself provides an intriguing set including a plush First Class section up to the cockpit where pilot Robert Stack stands between a doctor saving the life of one of several culprits, investigates the plane and passengers along with cop Hugh O'Brien as his co-pilot does the work. Meanwhile Farrah Fawcett... alone on the DVD cover as if this AIRLINE were her very own vehicle (three years before CHARLIE'S ANGELS, sharing producer Aaron Spelling)... is the perfect eye-candy stewardess, and able to actually act a few times since there's an ongoing tension. Even providing George Maharis some nice edgy scenes back at the tower, where most plane-in-peril thrillers remain on cruise control. </p><span></span>

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FARRAH FAWCETT SERVES AIRLINE MYSTERY 'MURDER ON FLIGHT 502'

Farrah Fawcett in Murder on Flight 502 Rating: **** Different than most airline disaster flicks in that a gun's drawn literally minutes ...

ROCK HUDSON 'BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY' W/ MARCIA HENDERSON

action, adventure, fifties, hugh o'brien, joseph pevney, marcia henderson, remake, rock hudson, steve cochran

ROCK HUDSON 'BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY' W/ MARCIA HENDERSON

Dog attacks Steve with a whipped Rock at bay YEAR: 1953 BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY, based loosely on two silent films, leans on the stren...

FIFTIES & EIGHTIES: GLOSSING OVER TWO DECADES OF D.O.A.

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>1950 D.O.A. starring Edmond O'Brien</u></td></tr>
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<u>D.O.A. 1950</u>: Before the ball really gets rolling, and things become serious for a small town businessman on vacation in San Francisco, an unbelievable sound occurs, more befitting a zany comedy caper, perhaps even a cartoon, than the sparsest, most serious of Film Noir vehicles...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Eighties One</u></td></tr>
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Inside a lavish hotel, whenever an attractive "dish" passes our rural fish out of water, an intentionally corny and contrived wolf-whistle chimes... Not coming from any character in the movie but from the "author" intruded editing room: Like PULP FICTION's Uma Thurman drawing an animated box outside Jack Rabbit Slims, the viewer must simply go with it. So in this severe tale of a dying man frantically in search of who "killed him," perhaps that silly noise existed to separate the two halves – and that's the gist of this particular nightmarish odyssey. Loaded with whodunit potential since what's been done can't be set back, it's never a question since, with the exception of those convention partiers who left town before O'Brien wakes up with a lethal hangover, no one's really known to us or him other than a faithful secretary, back home, on the phone, talking to her frantic boss who, poisoned at a jazzy bar that the hotel party had moved to, he has only a few days to live, and has to find out who, and why?<br>

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FIFTIES & EIGHTIES: GLOSSING OVER TWO DECADES OF D.O.A.

1950 D.O.A. starring Edmond O'Brien D.O.A. 1950 : Before the ball really gets rolling, and things become serious for a small town bu...

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