And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, May 25, 2024
I could see a really good movie based on this image.
Rod Serling did a decent take on Lady Be Good and a submariner being called home by shipmates. Like the potential of mystery of lost bomber and myterious cargo.
The movie to watch on this theme is 'Sole Survivor', which is loosely based on the 'Lady Be Good' story. The story is about the crew stuck in the desert with the crashed bomber. Richard Basehart plays an older senior officer who had bailed out of the damaged aircraft and been rescued. It turns out the crew are all ghosts. The plane is found, and the investigation starts piecing the events together, revealing Basehart as a coward. The crew had Vince Edwards and William Shatner was also in it, as one of the investigators if I recall. A decent made-for-TV movie.
and you could call it "Flight of the Phoenix"
ReplyDeleteExactly. And fly it out of there. Good Jimmy Stewart movie.
DeleteBeat me to it.
DeleteYeah great flick!
DeleteFriend I got was in that desert that movie portrays, says its a true waste land.
The movie would be about what the plane was carrying when it went down in the desert.
ReplyDeleteRod Serling did a decent take on Lady Be Good and a submariner being called home by shipmates. Like the potential of mystery of lost bomber and myterious cargo.
ReplyDelete"King Nine Will Not Return" in 1960 was another Twilight Zone dealing with this sort of thing.
DeleteB-25 in this one though.
They made one in 1970. Sole Survivor.
ReplyDeleteNavigation error. Flew over the base, ran out of fuel just after the crew bailed thinking they were over the Mediterranean.
ReplyDeleteThe movie to watch on this theme is 'Sole Survivor', which is loosely based on the 'Lady Be Good' story. The story is about the crew stuck in the desert with the crashed bomber. Richard Basehart plays an older senior officer who had bailed out of the damaged aircraft and been rescued. It turns out the crew are all ghosts. The plane is found, and the investigation starts piecing the events together, revealing Basehart as a coward. The crew had Vince Edwards and William Shatner was also in it, as one of the investigators if I recall. A decent made-for-TV movie.
ReplyDelete1970. Sole Survivor.
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"Flight of the Phoenix" or "Lady Be Good".
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