9 November 2010. There eerie music, the special effects, the plot all make for a retro-trip down the sci fi history with smatterings of the original Outer Limits and Twilight Zone. This simple, somewhat stiff movie has decent elements and a sincere elements that echo THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL with a time-space twist along with a dose of the original STAR TREK. Watchable, but outdated. The possibility of being trapped forever in a living stasis where time has stopped or where a few humans would stand in judgment of present earth would be the core of several STAR TREK episodes. A number of strains of the sound track would later be used in the OUTER LIMIT that would come out a couple of years later.
5/13/2023. This 60s science fiction about a commercial four-prop plane disappearing into thin air has the advantage of being more of a period piece that encounters a science fiction situation so that most of the time, the film doesn't age. This movie has some similarities with the plot outline of The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) released a decade earlier and the more contemporary Jodie Foster's Contact (1997). Nevertheless, the dialogue is by today's standards loaded with cliches, including sexual stereotypes, and the special effects awful especially compared to the sci fi classic The Forbidden Planet (1956). However, there seems to be a sincere effort to produce a serious sci fi movie that incorporates attempts at substantive narrative about the role of women and the dangers of the atomic bomb. The Flight That Disappeared is not the typical pulp sci fi waste and instead sets the bar for the most part as a precursor to the much better anti-war movie Fail Safe (1964) or Stephen King's The Langolier's (1995).
5/13/2023. This 60s science fiction about a commercial four-prop plane disappearing into thin air has the advantage of being more of a period piece that encounters a science fiction situation so that most of the time, the film doesn't age. This movie has some similarities with the plot outline of The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) released a decade earlier and the more contemporary Jodie Foster's Contact (1997). Nevertheless, the dialogue is by today's standards loaded with cliches, including sexual stereotypes, and the special effects awful especially compared to the sci fi classic The Forbidden Planet (1956). However, there seems to be a sincere effort to produce a serious sci fi movie that incorporates attempts at substantive narrative about the role of women and the dangers of the atomic bomb. The Flight That Disappeared is not the typical pulp sci fi waste and instead sets the bar for the most part as a precursor to the much better anti-war movie Fail Safe (1964) or Stephen King's The Langolier's (1995).