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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 31, 2018 0:01:21 GMT
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on May 31, 2018 3:34:46 GMT
Here's a few more I thought worth mentioning:
Flight of the Navigator (1986) Fantasy-adventure movie featuring a kid piloting an alien spaceship.
The Island at the Top of the World (1974) Fantasy-adventure movie about an expedition to the Arctic aboard a dirigible.
October Sky (1999) Biographical drama film about a coal miner's son who takes up rocketry as a hobby, later becomes a NASA engineer.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 31, 2018 15:23:10 GMT
Here's a few more I thought worth mentioning:
The Island at the Top of the World (1974) Fantasy-adventure movie about an expedition to the Arctic aboard a dirigible.
The Island at the Top of the World! I had forgotten all about that one. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and I thought it was awesome but I haven't seen it since.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 31, 2018 18:49:30 GMT
Master of the World (1961)
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Post by sostie on Jun 1, 2018 9:38:21 GMT
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Post by london777 on Jun 1, 2018 22:07:48 GMT
Sorry, spider, not a movie still, but in view of your recently-started threads on "Films with artificial, eerie, stagey studio environments" and on "Dream Sequences" and on "Film Noir lighting" I hope you will excuse the intrusion. It's a photo of a BOAC commercial flight on the tarmac at Gibraltar duing the war, with the anti-aircaft and security searchlights silhouetting the Rock. I was surprised to learn such flights continued. Actor Leslie Howard was killed (exactly 75 years ago today) when a similar flight from Lisbon was shot down by eight Junkers 88s, and Lisbon was in a neutral country, not a prime and "legitimate" target like Gibraltar. I just think it is a terrific picture. If it were a film still we would consider it one of John Alton's finest efforts.
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 1, 2018 22:51:07 GMT
london777 Gorgeous photo, london. Thanks for sharing it. And you're right about Alton. It looks like he shot it anyway. And I'd forgotten about Leslie Howard. What a sad story.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 1, 2018 22:54:51 GMT
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode 123 of the television series The Twilight Zone. One of the most popular episodes, the nightmarish tale with an excellent performance from Shatner, is based on a short story of the same name by Richard Matheson. It was first aired on October 11, 1963... The episode was remade in 1983 by director George Miller as a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. While traveling by airliner, Bob Wilson (William Shatner) thinks he sees a gremlin on the wing. Bob tries to alert his wife and the flight crew to the gremlin's presence, but every time someone else looks out of the window, the gremlin hides itself near the engine... "Portrait of a frightened man: Mr. Robert Wilson, thirty-seven, husband, father, and salesman on sick leave. Mr. Wilson has just been discharged from a sanatorium where he spent the last six months recovering from a nervous breakdown, the onset of which took place on an evening not dissimilar to this one, on an airliner very much like the one in which Mr. Wilson is about to be flown home—the difference being that, on that evening half a year ago, Mr. Wilson's flight was terminated by the onslaught of his mental breakdown. Tonight, he's traveling all the way to his appointed destination, which, contrary to Mr. Wilson's plan, happens to be in the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone"...
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Post by london777 on Jun 1, 2018 23:13:17 GMT
london777 Gorgeous photo, london. Thanks for sharing it. And you're right about Alton. It looks like he shot it anyway. And I'd forgotten about Leslie Howard. What a sad story. Thanks for your forbearance. I will not hijack this excellent thread further except to say that the shooting down of Howard's flight was not only sad but a very complex and still unresolved mystery for those who care to read about it: Flight 777It would make a stunning movie and if you know any screenwriters, tell them to give me a ring to hear my concept.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 2, 2018 2:34:19 GMT
london777Thanks for the interesting link about Howard. That story would make a good film. Is the similarity between your ### and the flight's ### purely coincidental ?
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Post by london777 on Jun 26, 2018 2:23:55 GMT
High Flight (1957) dir: John Gilling starred Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh and Anthony Newley. Another low-budget Brit movie with a fading American star in the lead (a common pattern in the 1950s) -although Milland was born in the UK and did not move permanently to the USA until he was 27. Oops! I have done it again! Zolotoy Retriever has already mentioned this one. Sorry!Other aeronautical movies in which Milland starred were: Wings Over Honolulu (1937) dir: H.C. Potter Men with Wings (1939) dir: William A. Wellman I Wanted Wings (1941) dir: Mitchell Leisen
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Post by london777 on Jun 26, 2018 3:01:56 GMT
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Post by london777 on Jun 26, 2018 3:10:46 GMT
Surprisingly, no-one has yet mentioned this relatively recent film by a celebrated director: The Aviator (2004) dir: Martin Scorsese
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jun 26, 2018 9:55:38 GMT
Carroll Ballard's FLY AWAY HOME.
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 26, 2018 14:07:04 GMT
Carroll Ballard's FLY AWAY HOME. Love this one, jefferson. Another beautiful Ballard film. I don't think he knows how to make any other kind.
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