WW2 Ghost film

[STEVEN]

As i said earlier the plane is in remarkable condition whether it's 7 or 17 years in the desert,but then the incredibly dry atmosphere would be a lot kinder (if thats the right expression !!) to the aircraft than a temperate climate.Unfortunately the same can't be said for the crew.

Must have been terrible,finally relising they weren't going to be recused,then walking off into the desert to a certain death.Is it known if any of the crew left anything behind in the form of a Journal or a Diary ??

Thanks

Steven

[CROONAERT]

Originally posted by STEVEN@Apr 19 2004, 10:15 AM
.Is it known if any of the crew left anything behind in the form of a Journal or a Diary ??

No diary that I know of, but apparently ,along with several personal items,there were some flasks containing coffee that was still drinkable in 1960!!!

Makes me wonder whether the writer of the film ,on hearing of the discovery of Liberator no.64, just used a little artistic license and added a survivor.

B.

[SteveB]

Thanks for the responses. Glad it's not only me that remembers it.
If I remember, the survivor in the film returns with the search team to the desert to help them locate the plane.

Cheers
SteveB

[Will O'Brien]

Got it......... .................The film was called 'Sole Survivor'........Bayernwald is right it was loosely (very very loosely as there was no survivors in reality) based on the disappearance of the Lady-be-good. It used the general plot of the aircraft going missing over the desert when the crew thought they were over the sea – as is thought to be the case in the Lady-be-good story & that the wreckage was found by an oil company – again as is claimed in the Lady-be-good story – the rest of the film is shall we say is full of artistic licence…………….I don’t know whether the makers ever claimed it was based on the Lady-be-good, but they certainly plagiarised parts of the story

[STEVEN]

Originally posted by BAYERNWALD@Apr 19 2004, 02:55 PM
along with several personal items,there were some flasks containing coffee that was still drinkable in 1960!!!

I dread to think how they knew this,surely someone didn't taste it ??

Steven

[CROONAERT]

Originally posted by STEVEN+Apr 20 2004, 03:33 AM-->

I dread to think how they knew this,surely someone didn't taste it ??

Steven [/b]

They did!!!!

B.

[Brownag]

I remember watching the film as a child but haven't seen it since. I think William Shatner was in it so maybe it was a made-for-TV-movie? That would help to explain why it hasn't been seen since.

Cheers

Adam

[WestKent78]

Apparently, they did find a diary of sorts that devolved into gibberish as the writer succumbed to heat exhaustion, blindness and all the other side-effects of exposure in the desert. There is still one member of the "Lady-Be-Good"'s crew unaccounted for. The "History Channel" had a programme on the story that they repeat occasionally.

[Staffsyeoman]

Here's the tale..

Plot Summary for Sole Survivor (1970) (TV)

A B-25 bomber is discovered in the middle of the Libian [sic] desert and an Air Force investigation team is called in to examine it. The team quickly discovers that it has not been touched since crashing a quarter century earlier. They also discover the plane's navigator survived and is now an Air Force general. The problem? He said the plane went down in the mediterrainian after the captain ordered the crew to bail out. This story has an interesting supernatural twist.

"As their remains are discovered, each of the airmen finally moves on. When the positions relative to the aircraft are revealed, the extent of their bravery is too."

If I remember rightly... one was left, as he was buried under the wreckage ans wasn't found by the salvage crew? And wasn't this done first as a 'Twilight Zone', or is that my memory playing tricks?

[Will O'Brien]

Originally posted by Staffsyeoman@May 16 2004, 09:01 PM
If I remember rightly... one was left, as he was buried under the wreckage ans wasn't found by the salvage crew? And wasn't this done first as a 'Twilight Zone', or is that my memory playing tricks?

Staffs..............That's my recollection too