"Flight that disappear ", with a small budget -it shows in the scenes with the men of the future - could teach a lesson or two to the disaster movies of the seventies ,with their cardboard characters and their special effects.
It actually belongs to the tradition of the fear of the Bomb ,already expressed in "the day the earth stood still" (1951),in which the E.T. warned the human race the way the "jury" does here or in "on the beach" (1959) ,the last pictures of which look like those men-who-might-never show to the threesome as far as the future of their planet is concerned .The tradition would continue in "Dr Strangelove...." (1963) and "planet of the apes" (1967). The cold war is hinted at when the passenger urges the doctor to build his bomb and wipe "them" out.
The screenplay is solid and makes up for the lack of means ;there's really a sense of mystery and interest is sustained throughout.
It actually belongs to the tradition of the fear of the Bomb ,already expressed in "the day the earth stood still" (1951),in which the E.T. warned the human race the way the "jury" does here or in "on the beach" (1959) ,the last pictures of which look like those men-who-might-never show to the threesome as far as the future of their planet is concerned .The tradition would continue in "Dr Strangelove...." (1963) and "planet of the apes" (1967). The cold war is hinted at when the passenger urges the doctor to build his bomb and wipe "them" out.
The screenplay is solid and makes up for the lack of means ;there's really a sense of mystery and interest is sustained throughout.