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The Bermuda Triangle

  • 1979
  • G
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
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The Bermuda Triangle (1979)
DocumentaryMysterySci-Fi

A documentary that explores the legends, facts and folklore about the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle".A documentary that explores the legends, facts and folklore about the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle".A documentary that explores the legends, facts and folklore about the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle".

  • Director
    • Richard Friedenberg
  • Writers
    • Charles Berlitz
    • Stephen Lord
  • Stars
    • Brad Crandall
    • Donald Albee
    • Lin Berlitz
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    268
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    • Director
      • Richard Friedenberg
    • Writers
      • Charles Berlitz
      • Stephen Lord
    • Stars
      • Brad Crandall
      • Donald Albee
      • Lin Berlitz
    • 12User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Brad Crandall
    • Narrator
    Donald Albee
    • 2nd Class Petty Officer
    Lin Berlitz
    • Stewardess
    Howard W. Bishop Jr.
    • Lt. Heines
    Larry Bisman
    • Disappearing Sailor
    John Bohan
    • 1st Mate - Ellen Austin
    R.J. Bohner
    • Commander
    Vince Davis
    • Kasnar
    David Ellzey
    • Gruebel
    Steve Farrell
    • Wirshing
    Bobbie Faye Ferguson
    • Stewardess on 727
    Tony Frank
    Tony Frank
    • Hicks
    Ed Fry
    Ed Fry
    • Stivers
    John William Galt
    John William Galt
    • Peterson
    Anne Galvan
    • Flight Controller - 727
    Michael Glanfield
    • 1st Mate - Frigate
    Albert Hall
    Albert Hall
    • Co-Pilot 737
    Brian Herskowitz
    Brian Herskowitz
    • Hennessey
    • Director
      • Richard Friedenberg
    • Writers
      • Charles Berlitz
      • Stephen Lord
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    10tracywinters-44332

    The Good Kind of Scary

    Excellent story about the famed 'hot spot'.

    Brad Crandall narrates this 1979 film which documents many of the strange disappearances that have occurred in the Triangle. Fine dramatizations make the film more immediate with just enough time spent there before the viewer is returned to Crandall's narrative.

    Among the stories reviewed are 'Flight 19', the 'Mary Celeste', the 'Cyclops', and the 'Philadelphia Experiment'. Many frightening moments with solid special-fx.

    Well worth the time and much better than many other versions of this phenomena. Recommended.
    dtucker86

    very inaccurate and sensationalized

    I first saw this movie as a kid, so naturally I was taken in by it. The thing is that its a good time filler, but its almost completely inaccurate. There was a book I read a long time ago called The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved by a man named Larry Kusche who had done extensive research on all of the disappearances and had come up with startling facts. More then a few of the disappearances never happened, they happened away from the Bermuda Triangle, or they were perfectly explainable. They did an investigation once and compared the number of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle to the number of disappearances in other areas of the ocean that are the same size, they actually said that the Bermuda Triangle is one of the safest areas to travel through! This film claims that no debris was ever found in all the "hundreds" of disappearances in the triangle, Kusche pointed out that there was debris found after some of the disappearances. This film devotes a lot of time to the disappearance of Flight 19. The facts are this, these pilots were not experienced, they were all student pilots except for their flight leader Lieutenant Charles Taylor and he was new to the area. They found out that Taylor's compasses malfunctioned and he thought they were way off course and instead of flying towards their base they were actually going away from their base. The weather got very bad and in this bad weather, in rough weas in the dead of night, the planes ran out of fuel....well you get the idea. There have been a number of Avenger bombers found in the ocean so you cant say conclusively the wreckage of Flight 19 has never been found. Also there was a big PBY that disappeared searching for Flight 19. A ship saw a huge explosion in the air where this PBY was flying and they said later on that some fool was sneaking a cigarette and...well you get the idea. This film plays so fast and loose with the facts that its almost laughable.
    tommyuk

    Saw this in the cinema Quite Good

    I vaguely remeber seeing this in the cinema in 1979 in Northern Ireland when I was Eight or Nine.It was sort of semi-documentary.It was quite good for an afternoon matinee.We went to see it because the TV trailer looked good.It was similar to another film that came out around the same time Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot (1977) Also Semi-Documentary.I remember the Atlantis theory about a crystal firing a beam at passing aircraft.Far Out,I Love the Seventies.
    vicbstard

    Interesting Docudrama

    I watched this as a kid on its original cinema run in the UK. I was nine years old and and the movie left a lasting impression on me- I can still vividly remember the stories (especially Flight 19 and the Philadelphia Experiment).

    I've wondered about the film for many years, as it's format was rather strange for a cinema movie- The stories (I believe taken from Charles Berliz books "The Bermuda Triangle" and "The Philadelphia Experiment") were supposably true. The movie takes on dramatised documentary form, complete with overly serious presenter.
    6AaronCapenBanner

    Vanishings & Strange Occurrences

    A Schick Sunn Classics speculative docudrama directed by Richard Friedenberg based on the popular book by Charles Berlitz concerning the legendary Bermuda Triangle, and the mysterious ship and plane vanishings and strange occurrences that have been reported there for centuries, even as far back as Christopher Columbus who is believed to have seen UFOs in the area in 1492! The famous missing flight 19 from 1945 is also profiled, as are several other reported stories. Brad Crandall presents this quite well, as he had many other films of this type from the 1970's.

    Not bad for nostalgic value, certainly entertaining, though also amateurish at times, even a bit outlandish.

    Now available on Blu-ray in HD so can gain a new appreciation or at least a re-evaluation.

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    • Trivia
      This documentary was released on Blu-ray from Kino Lorder on April 29, 2025, featuring a new 4K restoration by Paramount Pictures (2017), and an audio commentary by producer James L. Conway; moderated by film historian Howard S. Berger.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Being There/The Fog/Chapter Two/American Gigolo/Fatso (1980)

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    • Release date
      • January 24, 1979 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Бермудский треугольник
    • Filming locations
      • Brownsville, Texas, USA
    • Production company
      • Sunn Classic Pictures
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $22,167,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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