Crash Landing

1958
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1h 16min

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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaAirplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.Airplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.Airplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.

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Gary Merrill

Capt. Steve Williams

Nancy Reagan

Helen Williams
(as Nancy Davis)

Irene Hervey

Bernice Willouby

Roger Smith

John Smithback

Bek Nelson

Nancy Arthur

Jewell Lain

Ann Thatcher

Sheridan Comerate

Howard Whitney

Richard Newton

Jed Sutton

Richard Keith

Harrison White

Celia Lovsky

Mrs. Ortega

Lewis Martin

Maurice Stanley

Hal Torey

Calvin Havelick

John McNamara

Phil Burton

Joan Bradshaw

Chorus Girl
(sin acreditar)

Brandy Bryan

Chorus Girl
(sin acreditar)

Kim Charney

Barrie Williams
(sin acreditar)

Ronald Green

Mel
(sin acreditar)

Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Carlos Ortega
(sin acreditar)

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searchanddestroy-1

Mayday Mayday, Sam Katzman produces this movie....

This CRASH LANDING feature lives up to its title. The only fate for this movie is to crash, with Sam Katzman as producer and Fred Sears as director. Both men gave us acceptable film noirs and science fiction- CHICAGO SYNDICATE, INSIDE DETROIT, MIAMI EXPOSE, MIAMI STORY, EARTH VS FLYING SAUCERS.... But here, you already know what will happen, and if you already know AIRPORT movies made fifteen years later, I can advise you to do something else than to lose your time with this waste. However, if you are a Fred Sears hard boiled fan, OK, try it. However, I doubt there are plenty of Fred Sears' fans in the world. The latest's best stuff are the movies evoked above and CELL 2455 DEATH ROW. Forget the rest.

10jan-hranac

Great cinematography

Oh how the mighty have fallen. And by mighty I mean Hollywood.

America used to be able to produce movies which were OK. Just search "ww2 instructional video" on YouTube and you'll find tons of good quality cinematographic material.

This movie comes from such an era. An era, when movies used to be well tailored and well crafted. This is down to the roots kind of thing. There is something romantic and mysterious about a commercial flight plane. A bunch of people stuck in limited space, fighting for survival under the leadership of the crew. This movie didn't capture it, this movie created the whole genre.

7trimbolicelia

Crash Landing (1958)

A late 1950's not bad by-the-numbers plane in peril film. Captained by a stiff-necked pilot who raises his son like he's in the army. While struggling to keep the plane flying until they reach assistance he learns some tolerance and good parenting skills. The plane is filled with the usual stereotypical potential crash victims. A pretty OK time-passer. The Sony Pictures Collection DVD-R is very good quality. Recommended for fans of the genre.

5bkoganbing

A mighty big ocean

Compared to the budgets he had at Monogram Sam Katzman must have thought he arrived in money heaven over at Columbia Pictures. Crash Landing is a dime store remake of The High And The Mighty with characters not half as interesting.

Gary Merrill is the martinet captain of the airplane who has a lot of issues, but does know his job. He's married to Nancy Reagan and we get treated to a rather pedestrian domestic disturbance between them and their son Kim Charney over him giving away his bicycle and then both of them lying and covering up the real story.

The passenger stories unlike in The High And The Mighty are just not that interesting, they're not developed at all.

What Crash Landing has going for it is the title itself which kind of gives away what's going to happen. Captain Merrill's airplane develops engine trouble and loses fuel. It will not make the completed run from Lisbon to New York and has to ditch in the mid Atlantic. It's a mighty big ocean and the race to see if rescue ships can be in the vicinity of where Merrill ditches. Those scenes are done well if on the cheap.

Crash Landing, a bargain basement The High And The Mighty.

5blanche-2

Ditching out of a plane

The plot for Crash Landing from 1958 is based in the true story of a Pan Am flight, a Stratoliner that ditched with passengers and crew in 1956 with the help of a Coast Guard cutter.

It's torture to watch old plane movies. The passengers look so comfortable and the planes are nearly empty.

Anyway, Gary Merrill plays a strict pilot no one likes - and that includes his wife (Nancy Davis in her final film) and son. The plane malfunctions on a trip from Lisbon to New York, and they're not going to make it. They're going to land in the ocean and the passengers and crew will be picked up by a destroyer in the area.

We don't get a lot of passenger background- two obnoxious businessmen and a bad performance by Irene Hervey as a nervous flyer.

A little boy on the plane is told he will have to leave his dog Wilbur behind. To die. He was upset initially but calmed down pretty quickly- that would never have happened. Merrill, thinking of his own unhappy son and impressed by the father/son relationship, takes it upon himself to rescue Wilbur. And returning to his family, he's a different guy.

The scenes of the ditching were really worth the whole film, very exciting, and more so realizing that actually happened. I don't know how Sully and the crew prepared their passengers, but this was interesting.

Okay B movie with handsome Roger Smith one of the pilots.

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Based on the Pan Am Flight 6 incident of October 1956, in which. 24 passengers and seven crew survived the ditching of a Boeing Stratocruiser with help from a US Coast Guard cutter.

Pifias
The information above is incorrect. Both outboard engines have failed, the were able to feather the left (#1) engine which keeps the prop from rotating and creating drag. They failed at an attempt to feather the right (#4) engine so it continued to spin from the airflow which creates additional drag and thus needed extra fuel to make their destination. This is the reason they were forced to ditch.

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Teddy Burton: What about my dog? Are we gonna have to leave Wilbur?
Phil Burton: As soon as we get home, I'll get you another one, Teddy.
Teddy Burton: I don't want another one. I want Wilbur.
Capt. Steve Williams: Look, Teddy, if you're going to grow up to fly jet planes, you're going to have to learn about emergencies. Now suppose you were in command of a planetary rocket and something went wrong and saving an animal's life meant sacrificing a person. You'd give up the animal wouldn't you, even if it was yours?
Teddy Burton: I guess so. Can I go see him?
Capt. Steve Williams: Look, Teddy, your dog is back beyond the lounge, now if you went back there and something happened and we had to ditch before we expect to, your father would go back to get you, that'd worry your mother, now you don't want to upset them at a time like this, do you?
Teddy Burton: No, I guess not. But he'll think I'm a deserter; that I didn't even think of him.
Capt. Steve Williams: I think we can fix it so that he won't.
Teddy Burton: How?
Capt. Steve Williams: Well, if you let me take your hat, I'll take it back and put it in the box next to him. He'll know it's yours and he'll know you're thinking about him. And that will make him feel better, right?
Teddy Burton: Would you do that? Would you really?
Capt. Steve Williams: Yes, sure. Well now that we've got that stowed, why don't you help your mother and father take your little brother to the forward section.
Teddy Burton: Okay.
[Teddy, his mother and the baby move away]
Phil Burton: And you asked me how a father gets along with his son!