Left in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 - and the warning's received a day early.Left in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 - and the warning's received a day early.Left in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 - and the warning's received a day early.
Farrah Fawcett
- Karen White
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- TriviaThe uniforms worn by the airlines female crew members are actual TWA Stewardess uniforms worn during the winter months from 1968-1971. The same uniforms can be seen at the end of Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can".
- GoofsFlight 502 is cleared to take-off from "runway 90" at Kennedy Airport. Not only does Kennedy Airport not have such a runway, but it would not exist in real life, as runways are numbered according to heading in tens of degrees (1 to 36).
- Quotes
Paul Barons: [to his drunken seat-mate] Can't you get it through that pickled brain of yours that there's a homicidal maniac on board?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Airplane! (1980)
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Typical 1970's Made-For-TV Film
An ensemble cast of familiar Hollywood faces act, and attempt to act, in this low-budget whodunit, about a New York to London flight that has a psychopath on board. Polly Bergen hams it up as an alcoholic writer, and is fun to watch. Robert Stack plays the pilot, consistent with his serious, take-charge persona. Danny Bonaduce plays himself, more or less. Laraine Day's acting is fine but she needs more makeup. And hip looking Sonny Bono shows why he was wise to earn his living as a singer.
The film's sets look cheap, and the stereotyped characters are too perfunctory to spark much interest. The film's visuals look dated.
Given the suspects and the obvious red herrings, the whodunit puzzle is not that hard to solve. However, the plot twist at the end I did not see coming.
Even with a couple of obvious plot holes, "Murder On Flight 502" held my interest as a whodunit puzzle. But it has a "Producer Aaron Spelling" look and feel to it, with those cheap sets, bland dialogue, cardboard characters, and nondescript elevator music, all rather typical of assembly-line 1970's made-for-TV movies.
The film's sets look cheap, and the stereotyped characters are too perfunctory to spark much interest. The film's visuals look dated.
Given the suspects and the obvious red herrings, the whodunit puzzle is not that hard to solve. However, the plot twist at the end I did not see coming.
Even with a couple of obvious plot holes, "Murder On Flight 502" held my interest as a whodunit puzzle. But it has a "Producer Aaron Spelling" look and feel to it, with those cheap sets, bland dialogue, cardboard characters, and nondescript elevator music, all rather typical of assembly-line 1970's made-for-TV movies.
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- May 24, 2006
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