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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The High and the Mighty, it turns an airborne emergency into a tense, character-focused ordeal, balancing procedural aviation detail with the pressures on people responsible for many lives.
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Why this pick
A sober aviation drama driven by an investigator reconstructing a fatal flight; it shares the earlier film’s grave professionalism, human fallibility, and fascination with what happens under cockpit pressure.
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Why this pick
This ensemble disaster film carries forward the same adult, widescreen blend of aviation logistics, mounting danger, and private burdens surfacing as a flight faces crisis.
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Why this pick
Its stranded aircrew face a seemingly impossible survival problem, with the same tough mid-century craftsmanship and conflicted men forced to rediscover competence and trust.
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Why this pick
A restrained British aviation suspense drama where an ominous premonition shadows a military flight, matching the measured pacing and escalating dread of a journey imperiled in the air.
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01 / THE STORY
When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dan Roman
May Holst
Lydia Rice
Gustave Pardee
Ken Childs
Humphrey Agnew
Howard Rice
Lenny Wilby, navigator
