Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Alex da Silva Five airmen remain with their bomber plane in the middle of the Libyan desert hoping to be rescued. They have crash-landed but something is odd about this scenario. Any time that they start to trek in a certain direction, they always end up at the crash site. It also seems that they have been at the location for 17 years with nothing else to do but play baseball. The day comes when their plane is spotted and Major Vince Edwards (Devlin) and Colonel William Shatner (Josef) are sent to identify the wreckage and produce a report. They take with them General Richard Basehart (Hamner), who was the sixth crew member who parachuted out and survived 17 years ago. When they arrive, they don't see any of the airmen and they start to put their report together. The airmen are definitely there, though! Edwards persists in unravelling the truth.The inspiration for the setting of the story is the real-life incident involving the bomber plane 'Lady Be Good' which disappeared in 1943 and was spotted in the Libyan desert in 1958. Many details are retained for the film, eg, the intact wreckage and an urn of tea found at the crash site still being drinkable. As for the film, the story is excellently told as we follow two sides – the airmen who seem to be wandering in limbo and the investigators who are trying to piece together what happened. Can the truth be discovered and will the airmen's lives finally be redirected to wherever they need to go? The acting is good – William Shatner has a few Captain Kirk moments but that is what you want to see - and the ending is memorably done. It's a film that stays with you and keeps you watching for the duration. It also gets you thinking as to what might happen after death. And just who is the sole survivor?

pretchless2 It has been years since I saw this film, but it has always stood out as a great story about the planes and crews of World War II who never returned from their missions.Is it possible that the crews of these lost planes might be ghosts, hoping that one day they will be found so their spirits can be put to rest? What do these ghosts do to pass the time while they wait to be found? I always remember the scene where the ghosts of the dead airmen are playing baseball while listening to the investigating team as they examine the crash site. The current news they hear is that the Dodgers and the Giants have moved to the West Coast. The story keeps the viewer in suspense as you wonder if the "sole survivor" will be found out and if the bodies of the dead airmen will be recovered. An exceptional piece of work...

Catharina_Sweden I found this movie in a list of ghost movies, but it is not really a ghost-story. I mean: the usual story in which the protagonist is afraid of the ghosts, who are making their presence felt more and more, and suddenly appear looking very scary, making you jump. In "Sole Survivor", when the protagonist IS confronted by the ghosts, we who are watching are already used to them - and they never look scary to us.So, this is more a story of morals, corruption, guilt etc. among officers and pilots in the aftermath of World War II. The ghosts could quite as well have been only figments of the protagonist's guilty conscience, but this is not so - it is obvious that they are supposed to be true spirits of dead people.There are also some interesting ideas about what happen to us after death, and when we are among the ghosts the atmosphere is surreal and dream-like - very similar to that in "The Others".This mixture of cynic realism and vivid imagination, is very unusual in movies I believe. I almost could not decide if I liked this movie or not, because it kept me hooked - but at the same time the whole set-up felt quite weird.

studio-55 I must have seen this as a young child in the 70's and as an adult I have searched many times for this film, not knowing it's name. I've spent hours pouring over lists of movies, from 'war' to 'ghost' categories and maybe never found it as it was made for TV. i would never have guessed it wasn't a cinema release such was it's impact.I found it funnily enough by looking up 'sole survivor' the name of a book on a little boy who strangely enough is the reincarnated sole of a second world war pilot (check out his story, his name is James Leiningerand they are making his story into a film)This 1970 film is excellent and left a deep impression on me, the final scenes in particular. I'd love to get hold of a copy as I only saw it once over 30 years ago. The details of the plot in my mind are pretty sketchy now but the mood and drama of it created a very strong impression on me.