believe is a 2013 british sports drama film directed by david scheinmann .

set in manchester in 1984 , it stars brian cox as legendary manager , sir matt busby , who comes out of retirement to coach a team of young working class boys captained by the talented but unruly georgie gallagher ( played by jack smith ) .

the film also stars natascha mcelhone as erica gallagher , anne reid as jean busby and toby stephens as georgie 's prospective headmaster .

believe was released theatrically in the united kingdom on 25 july 2014 .

believe ( 2013 film )

believe ( 2013 film ) <EOT> a documentary that supposedly chronicles the 2012 - 2013 tour but stays so relentlessly on message , it offers no insights and few anecdotes about the real justin bieber .

the company , which also invested in the film , will release it late summer .

correction , nov . 15 , 2013 : this article originially misstated the year of lyndon b . johnson ' s death . he died in 1973 , not 1968 . ( return . )

" if you believe , you can score with your eyes shut . " - sir matt busby

london — trinity film will handle u . k . distribution on helmer david scheinmann’s family drama “believe , ” starring brian cox as matt busby , the iconic manager of the manchester united soccer team . the company , which also invested in the film , will release it late summer . set in 1984 and inspired by true events , the film follows a [ … ]

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london — trinity film will handle u . k . distribution on helmer david scheinmann’s family drama “believe , ” starring brian cox as matt busby , the iconic manager of the manchester united soccer team .

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believe is a modest but effective piece of mainstream entertainment that’s crowd - pleasing in the best possible way .

justin bieber ' s believe is exactly the movie you think it is , and that ' s fine .

the special will feature music performances and documentary footage as justin bieber embarks on his tour in support of his album believe .

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“believe” is produced by ben timlett for bill and ben prods . and justin peyton and manuela noble for wachafilm . exec producers are aurelio landolt , hans peter jaberg and mark sandell , with maggie monteith of dignity film finance as co - exec producer .

describes himself as nearly blind . despite this he won an award for best photography for ' it ' s only make believe ' .

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it ' s the rare 19 - year - old who ' s in a position to commission and co - produce a film about himself . clearly , with this kind of involvement , we can hardly expect justin bieber ' s believe to be an impartial document .

but " justin bieber ' s believe " keeps going back to the concert footage , and there it knows what it is , it knows what it is about .

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“pre - teen boys are underserved by films that cater to the no . 1 topic of conversation in their age group : soccer , ” said trinity’s robin grbich . “we think that the film’s uplifting and redemptive story make it the perfect film for mothers , fathers and grandparents to watch with their children and grandchildren . ”

if audience response and word - of - mouth at the 24th dinard festival of british cinema are any indication , this is a family - friendly film with a bright future .

a documentary film about justen ' s life and his struggles during his journey . he will face troubles that would stop him singing but , he ' s gonna make it .

of americans still believe it was the work of a conspiracy . i was once among them . back in the early 1970s , as a high school senior and college freshman , i read mark lane’s

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even if it doesn ' t ask all the right question or provide the answers we ' re looking for , justin bieber ' s believe is a perfectly harmless piece of work that will send fangirls the world over into a tizzy .

if you believe twitter , then justin bieber is retiring at the age of 19 . he made the announcement the day before his new movie , " justin bieber ' s believe " opened , so we can take it all with a pound of salt . cue the agonized screams of millions of his fans . but they ' ve been screaming anyway , and will continue to do so , because when tween and teen girls latch onto a figure like bieber , nothing will tear them asunder . " justin bieber ' s believe " is directed by jon chu , who also directed bieber ' s most recent tour , which explains its uncritical attitude towards the young star . the whole thing is obviously part of the propaganda arm of the bieber pr machine . incidentally , and importantly , the propaganda element of the film ( showing us how hard bieber works , how he put the " believe " tour together , performances from the tour itself ) is the best part of the whole thing . it ' s infectious , as a matter of fact : the enthusiasm of the entire team is infectious . and the fans ? well , they could power the entire eastern seaboard with their excitement . this film is for them , clearly , and so the fact that bieber is not asked tough questions about some of his tabloid - worthy shenanigans is not a surprise . it makes the film a strangely uneven experience , and you sense that there may be some really interesting questions that could be asked and answered , if everyone could stop being so in awe of the young pop - music god in their midst .

correction , nov . 18 , 2013 : this article originally misstated lee harvey oswald ' s place of employment . he worked at the texas school book depository , not the texas bookstore depository . ( return . ) this article also originally misstated that the recording revealing that four gun shots had been fired came from an audio tape dictaphone belt worn by a dallas policeman . the recording transmissions were recorded at the dallas police headquarters from a microphone worn by an officer at the scene . ( return . )

nick offerman spontaneously signed onto the film after the crew found out that he was in dallas the same day that they were filming the " admissions counselor " scene . his scenes were filmed in a few hours and they parted ways after .

it’s a maxim of effective screenwriting to put your characters through hell and this believe does , with plentiful obstacles to be overcome and nicely sustained suspense straight through a nail - biting finale laced with unexpected humour in the form of creative subterfuge from an unlikely ally .

this reviewer ( a yank living in france ) had never heard of sir matt busby and couldn’t have told you more about manchester united than that it’s the name of an apparently famous soccer team . that one needn’t know more than that speaks well for the accesible screenplay and the film’s prospects for travel . using nearly every trick in the book to keep the smiling - through - tears combo going , believe is a modest but effective piece of mainstream entertainment that’s crowd - pleasing in the best possible way .

inside the x - files for a behind - the - scenes look at the show . also included are interviews with the cast and creator chris carter , never before seen segments from the show , outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film .

a dozen different souls , all moving in different directions , all longing for something more . as their lives unexpectedly intersect , they each are about to discover there is power in the cross of christ , even if they don ' t yet believe it . when a local pastor is shaken to the core by the visible faith of an old street corner preacher , he is reminded that true belief always requires action . his response ignites a faith - fueled journey that powerfully impacts everyone it touches in ways that only god could orchestrate . more than a movie , it ' s a question we all must answer in our lifetimes : do you believe ?

kennedy was shot twice : first through the neck ( by the bullet that went on to pierce connally ) , then in the head . the zapruder film captured this shot too , in frame 313 . the image was deemed so horrifying that it was excised from public viewings of the film until 1975 , when president gerald ford ( who’d served on the warren commission ) ordered it released . i remember watching the fully restored film on tv . it really was horrifying . you saw the top of president kennedy’s head literally blown off . but it was creepy for another reason : the blown - off piece of his head blew backward . in other words , it looked like that fatal bullet was fired not from behind kennedy , like the first bullet , but from in front of him . were there two gunmen after all—oswald in the book depository and someone else perched in the area known as the “grassy knoll” ?

after serving 10 years in prison for murder , jenny returns to society . she dreams of living a quiet life and of resuming her responsibilities as a mother , but soon dark shadows from the past start to appear . " it ' s only make believe " is the story of a murder that never should have happened , of friends that never should have been trusted , and a debt that keeps on increasing for every down payment . although jenny has lost everything , she still has everything to win : her daughter . " it ' s only make believe " is an exciting thriller and a heartfelt drama that marks a return to energetic and passionate filmmaking for norwegian maverick director arild østin ommundsen .

set in 1984 and inspired by true events , the film follows a gifted 11 - year - old soccer player , whose act of petty crime brings him to the attention of busby , who comes out of retirement to help transform the boy and his friends into championship soccer players . natascha mcelhone , anne reid , philip jackson and toby stephens co - star .

a solidly told , skillfully acted and engagingly shot tale inspired by actual events , believe is a sports - centered movie one needn’t care about sports to enjoy . as proudly manipulative underdog tales go , it’s a sprightly one : in manchester in 1984 , legendary football manager sir matt busby coaches a ragtag bunch of 12 - and - under working class soccer players who think he’s just some random old guy .

chris carter thinks he can dump a trash script that was sitting in his tv - series - reject stockpile on die - hard xfile fans . there were at least 5 occasions during the film where i was questioning the logic of the story and by the end , was still waiting for explanations that never were delivered . my opinions ( no facts , just educated guesses ! ) : 1 ) cc wanted to milk his cash cow without spending time crafting a new screenplay . 2 ) because of the profit & success of the first film , either cc made sure his contract stated to leave him alone and not staunch his " creativity " , or the studio gave cc carte blanche & never sent a " suit " ( executive ) to check on what he was doing . 3 ) gillian & david d . got suckered into this - because they signed on to do a package deal ( two or three films ) and had no say on the script . 4 ) x - file fans will still turn out for another film , because they love the mulder & scully characters . i am very sorry to write such a diatribe , but it was extremely disappointing .

but the case was far from closed . a man named abraham zapruder , one of thousands of people standing along the motorcade route that day in dallas , captured the shootings on his 8mm home - movie camera . at 26 seconds and 486 frames , it would come to be the most thoroughly examined snuff film in history—and a prime piece of evidence for the warren commission and the subsequent “conspiracy buffs . ”

the pressure of fame and its accompanying anxiety is the theme of the film , presented in a phony " suspenseful " sort of way : how will bieber not only top himself with his " believe " tour but how will he handle being seen as the next train wreck , that it is just a matter of time before he goes off the rails ? he speaks about this with a naiveté that is both disarming and calculated ( don ' t try that at home ) : when asked about becoming " a lindsay lohan " , he says that he already knows that that is a danger , and since he knows it , then he can choose to not go down that path . the people prompting him with these questions are , again , his employees , chu included , so bieber ' s banal platitude answers are greeted with a rapt silence . nobody digs deeper . we are shown an altercation between bieber and a heckler in england that almost gets violent . bieber says of the moment later , to the camera , with a soft expression , " i ' m a human being with a heart . " nobody is denying that , but there ' s a missed opportunity in the film to really examine the stresses of fame and how bieber is actually handling it .

there ' s a weird " tense " section meant to be a cliffhanger of sorts , where they basically court chu to direct the tour , all with " wacky " comedic music underneath , and we ' re told how everyone wants jon chu , bieber wants jon chu , jon chu finds it impossible to say " no " to bieber , and it ' s all a bit much considering jon chu also directed the film .

the film opens with a casual closeup of bieber messing around at the piano , making comments to someone offscreen , but also engrossed in his improvisation . next we see him hanging out in a dressing room , with a wall of his shoes filling the frame , and an assistant - type is saying to him , " do we want to shave your mustache ? " first of all : the peach fuzz on his upper lip is barely visible . second of all , the " we " is accidentally eloquent , showing the collective atmosphere of being a hugely managed superstar . by the end of the film , after seeing so much footage of bieber hanging around aimlessly in his big house with a bunch of people , all of whom are a good 15 years older than him , and all of whom work for him , you get the sense of the isolation that fame like that creates .

in his famous " village voice " obituary for elvis presley in august , 1977 , lester bangs said , of elvis fans , " i mean , who ' s left they can stand all night in the rain for ? " bieber is 19 years old , the same age as elvis when he became famous . but the world is so different now than it was in 1956 that the comparison between bieber and elvis doesn ' t withstand the slightest scrutiny . however , i thought of lester bangs ' words when looking at the huddled cold fans sleeping on the sidewalk waiting for tickets to be on sale . spending time in bieber ' s presence in the interview sections of the film do not give me confidence that he has the strength or intellectual capacity to withstand the onslaught of fame at the level he has achieved , but time will tell about that . the bieber fans aren ' t going anywhere . and " justin bieber ' s believe " is best when it shows us why .

as the old adage has it , “big doors sometimes swing on little hinges . ” john f . kennedy’s murder was a big door—had he lived , the subsequent decades might have looked very different—and lee harvey oswald was a preposterously small hinge . the dissonance is wildly disorienting . it makes for a neater fit , a more intelligible universe , to believe that a consequential figure like john kennedy was taken down by an equally consequential entity , like the cia , the mafia , the soviets , castro … take your pick .

however , in 1975 , cbs news , which was doing a documentary on the assassination , hired a tech firm to conduct a high - resolution analysis of the zapruder film , using instruments that hadn’t existed in the warren commission’s day . the firm discovered that , on frame 312 , kennedy’s head slammed a tiny bit forward , and much more quickly than it jolted backward an instant later on frame 313 . the implication : the bullet hit his head from behind , pushing him forward , then a nerve exploded , which happened to push him backward .

behind the headlines , beyond the spotlight - - there’s more to his story . directed by jon m . chu ( never say never , g . i . joe : retaliation ) justin bieber ' s believe captures 19 - year - old justin bieber unfiltered and brutally honest . in brand new interviews with bieber , the movie reveals long - awaited answers to questions about his passion to make music , relationships and coming of age in the spotlight - - as well as never - before - seen concert footage , unprecedented behind - the - scenes access and special appearances from manager scooter braun , patti mallette , usher , ludacris and many more .

behind the headlines , beyond the spotlight - - there ' s more to his story . directed by jon m . chu ( never say never , g . i . joe : retaliation ) justin bieber ' s believe captures 19 - year - old justin bieber unfiltered and brutally honest . in brand new interviews with bieber , the movie reveals long - awaited answers to questions about his passion to make music , relationships and coming of age in the spotlight - - as well as never - before - seen concert footage , unprecedented behind - the - scenes access and special appearances from manager scooter braun , patti mallette , usher , ludacris and many more . ( c ) open road

at first , it was assumed that kennedy and connally had been hit by separate bullets . but the zapruder film threw a wrench in that notion . the warren commission’s analysts concluded that jfk was shot sometime between frames 210 and 225 ( a street billboard blocked zapruder’s view at the crucial moment ) , while connally was hit no later than frame 240 . in other words , the two men were hit no more than 30 frames apart . however , fbi tests revealed that oswald’s rifle could be fired no faster than once every 2 . 25 seconds—which , on zapruder’s camera , translated , to 40 or 41 frames . in short , there wasn’t enough time for oswald to fire one bullet at kennedy , then another at connally .

set in 1984 and inspired by true events , ' believe ' is a funny and touching fictional tale about the legendary manchester united football manager sir matt busby , who helps a wayward boy fulfill his dream . an act of petty crime by 11 year old georgie becomes a collision of fate as sir matt tracks him down , only to discover that the boy is an extraordinarily gifted footballer and captain of a team of unruly talents . having lived with football all his life and survived the tragic 1958 munich plane disaster , in which eight of his young players were killed , sir matt is still committed to continue his work of ' training lads for life ' and so begins a thrilling adventure as sir matt busby , comes out of retirement to transform a young group of scallywags into a dream team .

there are really fun scenes of the huge dance auditions held for the tour . we meet the dancers . we see the rehearsals , we see bieber in collaboration with others . the film includes clips of home video footage showing young bieber fans flipping out over receiving concert tickets . one girl crouches on the living room floor sobbing over her tickets and a family member says anxiously , " those are tears of joy , right ? " there ' s an insane shot of a girl screaming at the top of her lungs , holding her tickets , as someone off - camera keeps saying , " okay , that ' s enough . " but teen girls need to scream , and teen girls are the most powerful demographic on earth . loyal , too . make fun of them at your peril .

it is worth considering , though , who the film is for . it ' s for the fans . and on that level it works . onstage , bieber is an appealing , exuberant and friendly presence , which is all that matters to the fans who lose their minds upon seeing their first glimpse of him , flying in above the stage attached to huge metallic wings made up of different musical instruments . he ' s all in white , wearing sunglasses , and as slight as his frame still is , he seems gigantic and mythic . his performances have an intimate " it ' s you and me in this together " thing going on , as he reaches out to the fans up front , sometimes pulling one out of the audience to sing to her . chu films it all with a vitality that gives you the feeling that you are there . the footage of the audience is exciting , little girls sitting on their dads ' shoulders , teen girls hugging and crying and holding up their phones , everyone singing along to the lyrics . whatever his offstage antics may include , onstage bieber is the perfect teen idol .

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in the lively opening credits sequence , director and co - screenwriter david scheinmann swiftly and enjoyably establishes that young georgie ( jack smith ) , who is being chased through streets and stores by two angry older men , is very good around a soccer ball - or indeed any faintly round item that can be jostled with one’s foot .

an onscreen title introduces the fact that three hours earlier georgie was watching a videotape about his hero pelé while elsewhere in town matt busby ( brian cox in a wonderfullyunderstated performance ) was getting ready to attend a funeral with his loving wife .

the telly in the busby household conveniently expounds on how busby took over the manchester united football club in 1945 and built it into a winning team only to have tragedy strike in the 1958 munich plane crash that killed the players . matt has wistful personal flashbacks to the bad weather that should have grounded the flight , to the young and talented lads who perished and to his own remarkable survival with wreckage scattered all around him in the snow , still buckled into his seat .

such flashbacks could backfire but miraculously , they don’t . matt has been asking himself for 25 years why his life was spared . when fleet and fearless georgie steals his wallet - not because he’s the criminal type but because he needs the £21 registration fee to sign up with his unruly mates for the manchester junior football cup competition - matt is not only led on a merry chase but he sees ( in slow motion , yet ) georgie’s considerable raw talent with a ball .

matt , who will be 75 in a few weeks , could turn georgie over to the police , but instead makes a deal to coach the fledgling team of under - 12 players who , needless to say , haven’t the slightest idea who the older man is .

georgie lives with his mum , erica ( natascha mcelhone ) . dad is only ‘in the picture’ in a framed portrait and his absence is sorely felt . erica wants what’s best for her only child and doesn’t really grasp how much soccer means to her boy or just how gifted a footballer he is .

georgie is up for a scholarship to lancashire grammar school , a posh establishment required to educate the occasional”lower income bracket” lad ( “you mean working class ? ” asks his mum ) . if georgie passes the entrance exam , he’ll be on his way . haughty and fastidious doctor farquar ( toby stephens , a hoot ) , who lives with his mum , tutors georgie and intones “brass is class” every chance he gets in order to trumpet his fetishistic love for the school’s marching band and its repertoire .

as in chariots of fire where religious faith threatens to interfere with olympic triumph , georgie will have to choose between a first class education and his devotion to the game that farquar condescendingly dismisses as “for those too feeble for ruggers . ”

the young man who plays georgie is a real find as the spirited working class kid with talent to burn . ( there seem to be an impressive number of young boys in english - language european films at the moment — the two leads in the selfish giant and the cute but tough kid who plays t . s . spivet for jean - pierre jeunet come to mind ) . cox exudes the necessary stolid , quiet authority as “the greatest manager of all time” and philip jackson is great fun as matt’s gambling sidekick , bob .

we learn in the closing credits what the young players — all well cast for distinct appealing faces and expressive body language — are up to in real life .

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goooal ! the extraordinarily talented eleven - year - old georgie from manchester plays a passionate game of football , and would love to sign up his team for a junior tournament in the city . unable to pay the high entry fee , he promptly sets about stealing the money . the old man that catches him red - handed just happens to be sir matt busby , the legendary manager of manchester united . sir matt soon begins training georgie’s team and looking out for the young lads . but georgie becomes increasingly tangled in a web of lies until , one day , he gets the red card – from his mother !

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a young , gifted football player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former manchester united coach matt busby , who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates .

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smith , dunne , preston , wisniewski , armes , phillips and o ' duffy were not career actors but actual footballers , or children pursuing careers in association football or having it as a hobby , around the time this movie was made . clarke , on the other hand , also with something of a local football background has pursued a minor career in acting .

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when the movie occasionally does confront its hero ' s foibles , its answers are disappointingly pat .

films like this work best when exalting is the task , and when it comes to displaying mr . bieber in his milieu - on stage - it shines .

my daughter wants you to know that the movie is great and that you shouldn ' t listen to a hater like me . i envy her belief .

when it strays from the glitzy pyrotechnics of a miami concert , it descends into another manipulative pr stunt .

there ' s nothing wrong with making a documentary about the biebs , but you wish the filmmakers had thought a lot harder and dreamed a little bigger .

director jon m chu throws a few curlies at bieber about fame , philanthropy , artistic integrity and the bum fluff growing in the space between his nose and his mouth where a mustache would normally go .

basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …

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justin bieber started out as a youtube phenomenon . it ' s one of the most interesting aspects of his story , because this was , from the start , a fan - driven ( as opposed to industry - driven ) success . bieber is aware of that and speaks in interviews about the early days , before he was even signed , about how his fans would show up at his local concerts , pumping up the excitement about him . the fans who have been on board from the start feel a sense of ownership in bieber . many of them were tweens when he first " hit " ( as bieber himself was ) , and so they have grown up with him . marketing teams try to manufacture that sort of fan - loyalty with the young stars they manage , but they rarely succeed , at least not to the level of the organic phenomenon that is bieber . you never know where lightning will strike , and when it appears to strike on its own , the results are so powerful that it leaves the industry itself gasping to catch up .

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unlike some other reviewers here that don ' t appreciate decent writing , positive , inspiring stories , and just wholesome television , i do . i love this show . i love that it is science fiction applied to present day . i love that the story is about helping others , and showing that human beings can evolve into something positive . it reminds me of the message that star trek tried to convey . the current trash on tv is tiring . reality shows and garbage filled with sex , violence , and just immorality . this show i feel comfortable watching with my kids . it ' s a shame that nbc has canceled it , and hope they reconsider . there isn ' t a lot of good tv out there , but , this is good tv ! could it be better ? absolutely . however , it takes time for actors to get into their characters , develop relationships , and develop stories . i hope that we can watch all of these characters develop for several more seasons . please don ' t cancel this wonderful show !

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a woman goes to prison for murder . after being released back into society , she tries to create a new life for her and her now nine year old daughter . but her dark past comes back to haunt her and threaten both of their lives .

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desperate , broke , and out of ideas , four college seniors start a fake charity to embezzle money for tuition .

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the start of the movie was hilarious with some comedy bits but it kinda didn ' t last more than 25 minutes , then the serious drama rigid stuff came out . to be fair it ' s a nice movie , well written , well casting , the main characters were generally funny . as a good doer myself and activist in charities ( so humble , right ! ! : d ) the storyline sounded a bit more complicated than it usually is . but maybe that ' s how charities in the name of jesus works . . . don ' t know . anyway , , the movie was acceptable would recommend watching it with family on pizza night : d generally , if you ' re christian then you ' ll be jumping up and down out of faith , but if you ' re something else so you ' ll see that 5 / 10 is good score . also i gotta say " max adler " this guy is gonna be something i ' v seen him on " switched at birth " before and he ' s got a real talent , and here he was the comic whiff that the movie needed .

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then , one day , i looked up the footnotes in those books , most of them leading me to the multivolume hearings of the warren commission . i was shocked . the authors had taken witnesses’ statements out of context , distorted them beyond recognition , and in some cases cherry - picked passages that seemed to back their theories while ignoring testimony that didn’t . it was my first brush with intellectual dishonesty .

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the basic facts are these . on nov . 22 , 1963 , president kennedy , texas gov . john connally , and their wives were riding in a slow , open motorcade through dallas . at 12 : 30 p . m . , as the car turned onto dealey plaza , three gunshots rang out . kennedy and connally were both shot . the car sped to a nearby hospital , where the president was pronounced dead and the governor treated for wounds . lee harvey oswald was arrested as the suspected gunman and was himself shot to death days later . president lyndon johnson appointed a commission , chaired by supreme court chief justice earl warren , to investigate the assassination . the warren report concluded that oswald had fired all three shots from a window on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository , where he worked . *


crash landing ( aka rescue at sea ) is a 1958 dramatic , " disaster " film directed by fred f. sears , starring gary merrill and nancy reagan .

this was the last film in which nancy reagan ( billed as nancy davis ) appeared , though she continued to work in television for some years thereafter .

crash landing was based on pan am flight 6 , a real-life ditching at sea .

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crash landing ( 1958 film ) <EOT> crash landing ( 1958 ) directed by fred f . sears • reviews , film + cast • letterboxd

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a shanghai film studio production , crash landing follows the contours of many airplane disaster films , such as the airport series , and stars shao bing , xu fan , and you yong .

, released in february 1958 . air disaster movies comprised a special genre unto themselves - and with

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due to the film ' s scale and budget , crash landing was seen upon its release as a prime example of the growing sophistication of china ' s mainstream film industry , with one western media review calling it " one giant leap for chinese cinema . "

before making her last motion picture , 1958’s crash landing , nancy reagan had already begun a second phase of her hollywood career , guest - starring in a number of television theatrical dramas including four episodes of general electric theater , which her husband hosted .

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dear all , the crash landing does do a good job on what to expect during a plane crash . i think the actors are believable . i forgot how snippy gary merril gets in this movie . you almost want to hit him

due to the film ' s scale and budget , crash landing was seen upon its release as a prime example of the growing sophistication of china ' s mainstream film industry , [ 1 ] with one western media review calling it " one giant leap for chinese cinema . " [ 2 ]

robert zemeckis ' s film , seemingly inspired by chesley sullenberger ' s emergency hudson river landing in 2009 , gives the credit to the wrong guy .

the only feature film the reagans appeared in together was a minor war film , hellcats of the navy ( 1957 ) , he as a submarine commander , she as a nurse . in her final movie , crash landing ( 1958 ) , she is seen in flashback as the wife of a pilot in trouble ( gary merrill ) , not really the sort of role to inspire her to continue in the acting profession .

" teen - age story to be screened . " los angeles times , january 25 , 1958 , p . b3 .

panned the film , awarding it a score of 1 out of 4 , criticizing the film ' s monster as " preposterous - looking " .

you have whetted my appetite to tivo crash landing in march . sounds like a mystery science theatre evening at my house with that flick . one tiny error , didn’t the plane that made the emergency landing land in the hudson , not potomac ? enjoyed your post .

ronald reagan jr . tv journalist , former dancer . born may 20 , 1958 ; quit speaking to mother c . 1993 .

for the lowly protagonist , david mann , spielberg hand - picked character actor dennis weaver because he loved his performance as the jittery and feeble hotel night manager in orson welles’s 1958 film touch of evil .

" crash landing " is most likely ( loosely ) based on the saga of pan am flight 6 , which ditched in the pacific on 16 october 1956 after encountering . . .

yes . technically , it was a controlled water landing , as tom hanks ' character emphasizes in the movie . the coast guard released a miracle on the hudson crash landing video that shows the plane descending into the hudson river at 3 : 31pm on january 15 , 2009 .

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( 1958 ) is an entertaining if b - movie variation of the john wayne - william a . wellman blockbuster with an almost identical story .

it was not the end of offers to star in a feature film , however .

this diagram shows the plane ' s flight path in red , with the option of landing at teterboro in blue and the option of turning back to laguardia in pink ( or landing in the east river ) .

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mgm released her from her contract in 1952 ; and she sought a broader range of parts , but also married a guy called ronald reagan , of which she said , “being his wife was the role i wanted to play . ” after her first child was born she starred in the science fiction film “donovan ' s brain” ( 1953 ) ; and then she made “hellcats of the navy” ( 1957 ) , in which she played nurse lieutenant helen blair and appeared in a film for the only time with her husband . her last picture was “crash landing” in 1958 , which also starred gary merrill .

production for crash landing began on august 6 , 1957 , and wrapped in 10 days , with both studio and location photography completed in the typical sears fashion . [ 6 ] principal location photography took place at the hollywood burbank airport , playing the part of lisbon airport . the aircraft seen in the film include a united airlines convair cv 240 and douglas dc - 6 as well as dc - 6s from american airlines and western airlines . the principal airliner featured in crash landing was a douglas dc - 7 c , seen in miniature and in stock footage . [ 7 ]

there isn ' t much to this . the air disaster formula was in its infancy , not as refined as it would become in the 70 ' s , so crash landing doesn ' t fully understand how it should work . the crash literally takes hours to occur , and when it does . . . well , sometimes even practical effects will let you down .

the future first lady was still in college , however , when she made her very first appearance on film , performing in a national foundation for infantile paralysis fundraising short film short shown across the nation’s movie theaters .

crash landing follows the tense hours on board a stricken passenger aircraft that was on a routine flight from shanghai to beijing . shortly after taking off , the pilot ( shao bing ) discovers that the plane ' s landing gear is unable to be retracted . unable to continue , but unable to land , he and his flight attendant wife ( xu fan ) , are forced to circle shanghai .

) . adding controversy and personal drama to the story certainly helps to fill in the time around the three - minute water landing . the

1 . it was director simon west ' s first film , but you ' d probably seen his work before .

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there is an interesting film in the middle of this movie . but it does struggle with a few things typical of a low budget film of the era . the first is scope . the rocket ship used in the early portions of the film is pretty silly looking , and extremely small . worse still is the official nasa equipment used in the film , an old farm truck and what looks like an abandoned radio station as a home base . none of this looks official in the least .

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her role as a nurse in the 1957 film hellcats of the navy is perhaps her most famous because her co - star was her husband .

the menacing bird , in particular , is considered by many to be badly made , being a puppet with a very odd face . film critic

, ditching the plane is an absolute last resort , the implication being that chances of surviving the crash and even a few minutes in the water are remote at best . in

of all her movie roles , mrs . reagan’s own favorite was that of a fiancée whose intended husband dies , in the 1951 film night into morning .

it took 15 months before federal crash investigators concluded that capt . chesley " sully " sullenberger and co - pilot jeff skiles made the right decision to ditch the plane in the hudson river (

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is pretty decent . despite barely adequate miniature work , crash footage obviously cobbled from somewhere else , and a by - the - numbers script courtesy future tv producer fred freiberger , once viewers have reached the climax they ' ve spent sufficient time with the characters to care about their fates a little , and the violent landing and evacuation of the plane is pretty exciting for a little b - movie .

the film is inspired by the first emergency landing in china . on september 10 , 1998 , china eastern flight 586 , a mcdonnell - douglas md - 11 , flying from shanghai hongqiao international airport to beijing capital international airport , suffered a nose gear failure after take - off . the aircraft landed back in shanghai with the nose gear up on a foamed runway .

watch miracle on the hudson footage , including sully ' s water landing and the subsequent rescue . then view a captain sully interview and a documentary that includes remarks from some of the flight 1549 passengers .

pilot sullenberger and co - pilot jeff skiles didn ' t have enough time to go through the entire crash landing checklist . the ditch button , which seals the planes vents and outlets from taking on water , was never pressed . that , coupled with the fact that the impact had caused a breach near the plane ' s tail , resulted in the plane rapidly taking on water . as thousands of gallons of water poured in , the plane began to sink by the tail . the passengers would have just 24 minutes before the cabin and wings were fully submerged . - miracle of the hudson plane crash documentary

prolific b - movie director fred f . sears had been renowned for " quickies " , films that were shot on tiny budgets and often worked on a number of projects at once , from feature films to television shows . after his death in 1957 , crash landing ( originally known by the working title " rescue at sea " ) was one of five films that were finished but remained unreleased for a year . [ 5 ]

( 1958 ) . barely have the credits finished rolling than the disaster is underway : the plane is past the point of no return , with nothing but ocean underneath it , two of the four engines have failed , and the flight attendants start passing out the inflatable vests . and the movie has only just

, the inspiration for the story may have been taken from media reports about scientific discoveries in the field of particle physics , dealing with matter and antimatter . other influences included the japanese film

noted that the film disappointed for those reasons , " ( a ) lack of decent special effects ruins the running battle between colossal bird and fighter jets . big bird is laughable . "

another pre - crash scene some people are going to have trouble accepting is the moment when the flight attendant convinces the mother of an infant to let someone else hold the baby during the impact . “you may not be strong enough to hold onto the baby when we ditch . let me give it to one of the men , ” to which one of the husky servicemen says , “let me take it . he’ll be safe with me . ” i can’t imagine any mother parting with their baby in some similar contemporary situation but maybe this was not an unusual consideration for 1958 .

loftin rigged the truck with a dead clutch so the 18 - wheeler could drive without anyone behind the wheel . spielberg filmed the crash with seven cameras from multiple angles to be able to use some editing tricks to stretch out the scene .

disaster films : disasters have been the subject of film - goers ' fascination since the time of silent film epics , and this interest continues to exist up to the present time . catastrophes can take so many different forms - but they are mostly man - made or natural . they can be either impending or ongoing , or set in a distant future , or they can exist locally or globally .

the picture does have its share of unintended howlers . aboard the plane are a pair of empty - headed chorus girls ( joan bradshaw and brandy bryan ) who , as the plane is about crash , ask , " what will happen to our

executive producer for night of the blood beast is roger corman , and that should give you a hint of what’s in store . corman can be really hit or miss . and the fact that this film was paired with she gods of shark reef may have you worried . but there is some interesting stuff in this movie even if ( as mike puts it ) the film has been thoroughly corman - ized .

movie . " it was a hard landing , and then we scooted along the surface for some point and then at some point the nose finally did come down as the speed decreased , and then we turned slightly to the left and stopped . "

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at the fail - safe point , williams radios to a nearby u . s . destroyer for help , and alerts everyone on board to ready themselves for a crash landing at sea . as they prepare for the ditching , the pilot realizes that landing at night is too perilous , and they circle until sunrise . during the delay williams realizes that his attitudes have been too harsh and ann thatcher reconsiders her attitude to the co - pilot . when the airliner hits the water , the passengers , who are violently tossed about , recover and climb out to deployed life rafts . all are saved , and williams rescues the dog , which he had previously told the boy would have to be abandoned . eventually williams reunites with his wife and son in lisbon .

was one of five fred f . sears - directed features released in 1958 - a pretty astounding achievement when you consider that he died in 1957 . sears , a former actor , literally worked himself into a fatal heart attack at age forty - four . despite a very modest budget , probably in the $ 175 , 000 - $ 350 , 000 range versus

spielberg only had one take to pull off the climactic cliff crash because the initial shoot only had a single truck at their disposal . ( a backup truck was built during reshoots in case the engine of the main truck stopped working . the backup truck is

the film has been a staple of the bootleg video market , with only two official vhs releases ( one in the usa through goodtimes home video and the other through screamtime in the united kingdom ) to date .

the first act of the director robert zemeckis ' s new drama flight culminates with what is already being called the finest and most terrifying plane crash sequence ever committed to film . an engine failure on a full - capacity passenger flight has put the aircraft into an uncontrolled nosedive . the co - pilot ( brian gereghty ) is in a screaming panic , desperately trying to regain control of the plane , but the pilot , whip whitaker ( denzel washington ) , keeps it together . he calmly " inverts " the plane ( turns it upside down ) in order to level it off , then brings it in for a landing in an open field . as the giant jet approaches the grass , he utters three words over the pa : " brace for impact . "

all of this is just filler though until the climax when williams finally has to “ditch” the plane . the preparations for this frightening turn of events plays out as deadpan comedy with the two showgirls expressing their major concern – “what will happen to our luggage ? ” – while the stewardess gives duck - and - cover instructions on the crash landing : “now , remember , the first shock will be a light one , followed by final heavy shocks . ” that’s comforting . did she really need to tell them that ? i think i hate her .

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 .

as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film , there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck . spielberg , who wanted the truck to seem

bruckheimer said one version of the script had the plane crashing into the white house . " i said the guys would really rather crash into las vegas , " bruckheimer said —which makes more sense anyway , as vegas is much closer to the plane ' s starting point of oakland .

in that 60 minutes interview , couric asked sullenberger if he took time , in the three and a half minutes between the bird strike and the landing on the hudson , to pray . sullenberger ' s answer is diplomatic , but pointed : " i would imagine somebody in back was taking care of that for me while i was flying the airplane . . . my focus at that point was so intensely on the landing , i thought of nothing else . " in other words : yeah , i let the other people do the praying—i was busy doing my job .

is a grown - up movie about real world problems , mapped onto a disaster movie formula . on the surface it is a gripping thriller about panicking people forced to crash their plane into the sea - inside that fragile shell is a ruminative drama about what happens when you refuse to compromise .

a scene where passenger maurice stanley ( lewis martin ) offers mrs . willouby ( irene hervey ) a cup of coffee is parodied in the satirical comedy film airplane ! , with their respective roles assumed by child actors david hollander and michelle stacy .

both the new york times and washington post film critics detected authenticity in the emotions she conveyed on screen . the times declared that she “knows the loneliness of grief , ” while the post critiqued that she “is splendid as the understanding widow . ”

the film ' s memorable climax , which has the con air plane landing in vegas and crashing through the front of a casino , benefited from real - life serendipity : the sands hotel was about to be demolished . the filmmakers simply had to persuade the hotel ' s owners to wait a few weeks and let them help with the destruction . they only got one take , obviously . good thing they nailed it . ( the plane hitting the giant neon guitar at the hard rock hotel & casino was accomplished using models , though . )

you’re absolutely right jenni . it was the hudson , not the potomac , and is now correct . i think i got it mixed up with the 1982 crash on the potomac of a boeing 727 during a snowstorm . that one didn’t end up well . only 6 survivors out of 79 people .

alas this movie was not made in australia . in fact i ' m not sure if mst3k ever tackled an australian film . but they did mention the infamous yahoo serious in a sketch and wished and escape pod would fall on him . does that count ?

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still , i’ll take crash landing and others of its ilk ( jet over the atlantic , julia ( stewardess doris day lands the plane in a precursor to karen black’s hysterical pilot of airport ’75 ) , no highway in the sky , five came back , the crowded sky ) over the more realistic depictions of air disasters in such films as alive ( 1993 ) or fearless ( 1993 ) or united 93 ( 2006 ) or even that paranoid imagining of edward norton’s character in fight club ( 1999 ) . those are the sort of horror films you don’t want to have in your head when you’re crossing the atlantic ocean in the dead of night .

yes . clint eastwood had been involved in an emergency water landing when he was in the military as a young man . " i ' ve been involved in a water landing before , " he acknowledged when asked by katie couric . " well , it was an exciting moment for a 21 - year - old kid , but i was riding in the back of a military plane as a passenger , a free flight deal . coming down the pacific coast from seattle to san francisco , we went in the ocean off of point reyes , california . it was a good water landing , much like sully did . the plane didn ' t float though . we had about 30 seconds to get out of it , on the wing , and the water was coming up . the pilot said , ' what do you think ? ' i said , ' i guess we ' re going swimming . ' " they got in the cold november water and swam for the shore , surviving the ditching . - katie couric facebook live interview

eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck , yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom . the studio wanted a big explosion , but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .

the real issue is the pacing . there are lots and lots of talky scenes with little pay off or suspense . there are also several montages of walking ( a corman favorite ) . i can appreciate the idea to keep costs down by staying on one set , but the film never does much with it ( unlike john carpenter’s the thing which used its isolated setting to excellent advantage ) . the scenes with the blood beast creeping around almost work at times , but director bernard kowalski never manages to pull it off . i had the same issue with his film attack of the giant leeches .

on the set in wendover , utah ( where the desert scenes in the second half of the film were shot ) , a 39 - year - old welder named phillip swartz was killed when a plane he was working on fell over on him . the closing credits include a mention in his honor .

the snakerama gas station seen in the film also appears in spielberg ' s 1979 world war ii comedy , 1941 , with actress lucille benson again appearing as the proprietor . the two elderly people weaver tries to flag down in a car also appear as helpless motorists in close encounters of the third kind .

begins with an astronaut john corcoran ( michael emmet ) crash landing on earth . he doesn’t survive , but nasa picks up the ship and the body to study just what went wrong . when the crew gets back to their station , they find that they all contact to the outside world is blocked out by a powerful magnetic force . before you can say , alien life form , one of the scientists is killed gruesomely and a strange shape is seeing wandering around the base . on top of that john comes back to life – and he’s got a little surprise . turns out he didn’t come back alone . incubating inside his body are small living creatures of unknown origin . what other horrors will be revealed during the night of the blood beast ?

yes . " my knee hit my sternum and actually cracked my sternum , " says survivor barry leonard ( miracle of the hudson plane crash documentary ) . 78 people were treated for injuries . most were minor , such as hypothermia , but five were severe , including a deep l - shaped laceration to flight attendant doreen welsh ' s leg ( depicted in the movie ) .

yes . like in the sully movie , the real chesley burnett sullenberger iii later stated that he suffered flashbacks and insomnia for several weeks after the accident ( urltoken ) . sullenberger told 60 minutes that the moments before the crash were " the worst sickening , pit - of - your - stomach , falling - through - the - floor feeling " that he ' d ever experienced .

yes . while exploring the sully true story , we learned that a vintage wwii fighter plane crashed into the hudson river in may 2016 , killing pilot bill gordon . the cause was most likely mechanical failure ( urltoken ) . with regard to commercial airlines crashing into u . s . rivers , on january 13 , 1982 , air florida flight 90 , a boeing 737 , crashed into the frozen potomac river after taking off from washington national airport in virginia . only five people on board survived . 74 on the plane and four on the ground died , including one initial survivor who perished after making sure that the other crash survivors were rescued . in 1984 , a popular tv movie was made about the potomac crash , titled flight 90 : disaster on the potomac .

no . the ntsb investigators were re - imagined for the movie , with only very loose correlations to the real - life ntsb board , which included chairman deborah a . p . hersman , member robert l . sumwalt , and vice chairman christopher a . hart , among others . the real sully insisted the names be changed for the film since the movie treats the ntsb investigators as the " villains " of the story , painting them to be more vindictive and out - to - get - ' em than they were in real life . the movie ' s three main ntsb board members , charles porter , ben edwards and elizabeth davis ( portrayed by mike o ' malley , jamey sheridan and anna gunn ) , have no direct real - life counterparts . the film needed an antagonist and the ntsb became that villain . " the basic premise of the film is simply inaccurate , " says one source connected to the ntsb ( condé nast traveler ) .

after her final film , she appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas such as the zane grey theatre episode " the long shadow " ( 1961 ) , where she played opposite ronald reagan , as well as wagon train , and the tall man , until she retired as an actress in 1962 .

t here were many earlier action / adventure disaster films in the silent era through the advent of the talkies . some of the most notable were the hurricane ( 1937 ) - with one of the most spectacular tropical storm scenes ever shot in film history . and two 50 ' s films , the high and the mighty ( 1954 ) and zero hour ( 1957 ) - were the inspiration for all the airplane disaster films of the 70s . [ hitchcock ' s foreign correspondent ( 1940 ) also contained a harrowing airplane crash sequence . ] the real horrors of world war ii ( the holocaust ) , and the perceived threat of nuclear annihilation and radioactive mutancy during the resultant cold war led to a further onslaught of disaster - related films soon after in the 1950s .

she was born anne frances robbins in new york . after her parents divorced and her mother , edith , an actor , remarried , nancy took her stepfather’s surname . nancy davis was a middle - ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to reagan , having already told a friend that he was top of her list of hollywood’s eligible bachelors .

the prop recreators at chronicle collectibles have collaborated with universal studios to make the canisters as faithful to the original as possible . just like the prop used in the film , the vessel resembles an unassuming can of shaving cream from the outside . but screw off the bottom and you ' ll find a secret compartment filled with vials the perfect size for storing prehistoric genetic material .

so , compared to century 21 calling it’s a failure as an advertisement . but for sheer goofiness it’s a hoot . the wishing song is ridiculous in the extreme . the acting is over the top . the dance sequences are silly . wilber the angel presents a whole new take on floaty . it’s just packed with everything a fan of absurd cinema could want in their short film .

jurassic park ( 1993 ) is known for having some incredible props . the fake shaving cream can dennis nedry uses to smuggle dinosaur dna out of the cold storage unit may not be as iconic as the life - sized t . rex , but it still plays a colossal role in the film . now , io9 reports that an official replica of the prop can soon be yours .

ronald reagan . actor , politician . married uin march 1952 ; born on february 6 , 1911 ; formerly married to actor jane wyman ; sportscaster turned film actor ( from late 1930s through mid - 1960s ) ; later entered politics : became governor of california ( 1967 - 74 ) and later president of the united states ( from 1980 to 1988 ) ; diagnosed with alzheimer ' s disease .

spielberg got his start directing for tv at the age of 21 , helming episodes of such shows as night gallery and marcus welby , m . d . but the aspiring filmmaker was desperately searching for a property he could turn into a feature film . it was spielberg ' s secretary , nona tyson , who found matheson’s story in playboy and first sent it to her boss to potentially adapt into a movie .

title : amityville 3 - d . this is an original movie script from the 1983 horror film , " amityville 3 - d " . a man who is separated from his wife moves into the infamous amityville house . their daughter dies in a boating accident ( after being told that she is not allowed to go to the house ) and now the mother sees her deceased daughter " alive " in the house .

but the real puzzle is figuring out the point of the whole enterprise . it’s obvious that this is a short film advertisement for something . but unlike the outrageous design for dreaming which clearly made its goal the exciting cars of the 1956 motorama , this little film never clearly points out what its hawking . it took multiple viewings for me to finally realize that this was an extended ad for designer color phones . and no one was going to watch this thing multiple times , except for fans of mst3k . you see , as mary is singing and dancing around , wishing for new interior designs for her house , she made sure to mention the different color phones she can get for each room . also notice how wilber the angel uses his portable phone , and the boss makes a big deal of using conference call and speakerphone technology .

, which is thought to have netted the retired pilot a healthy six figures . how much personal drama was injected or heightened for the story is hard to say , but sullenberger himself stands by the film . " the story being told came from my experiences , and reflects the many challenges that i faced and successfully overcame both during and after the flight , " he said in a statement passed along by warner bros .

a us supreme court decision had severely constrained the major studios’ business practices , and cinema audiences had slumped by half with the rise of television . by 1955 , however , ronald had secured a lucrative television contract with general electric and , as the family finances improved , nancy embarked on a campaign of relentless networking . central to it was an influential magazine publisher , walter annenberg , whom she had met through her film connections .

what better way to start off the truncated season seven of mystery science theater than with a roger corman “classic” ? not only did mystery science theater 3000 , tackle this film , but they also aired it on thanksgiving of 1995 , as part of the turkey day marathon . as such the episode has two unique sets of host segments : one them revolving all around thanksgiving . so here you go , the thanksgiving episode of my favorite show .

after a tense goodbye with his wife , helen ( nancy davis ) , pilot steve williams ( gary merrill ) is on his regular flight from portugal to new york city when disaster strikes : one of the plane ' s four massive engines catches fire , rendering it useless . before steve can even register the first fire , another engine dies . williams quickly realizes that two engines won ' t get the plane safely to new york - - and he ' s going to have make an emergency landing in the middle of the atlantic ocean .

to get the water landing right and not end in disaster , pilot chesley " sully " sullenberger had to bring flight 1549 down at the perfect speed and angle . if the nose was angled up too high , the fuselage would take too much of the impact and the plane would break in half . this could also create too much drag and slow the plane down too much . sloping the plane forward would increase the speed , but too much forward slope would mean the engines would hit the water first , causing the plane to break up .

yes , but mainly only when the " human factor " was omitted . several months after the ditching , nearly two dozen emergency simulations were flown at the airbus headquarters in toulouse , france . four out of four simulations were successful when the pilots returned to the closest laguardia runway . however , in the simulations the decision to turn back was made immediately after the engines blew . the simulated scenarios didn ' t account for the " human factor , " essentially the 30 seconds it took to decide what to do . nine more simulated attempts to land at laguardia were conducted , taking into account the human factor and variables like landing at a different laguardia runway or landing with the plane more severely disabled . only three of those attempts were successful . in the end , the faa agreed with what sullenberger stated in his book , " i had to be certain we could make it , " he wrote , because " it would rule out every other option " and could kill " who knows how many people on the ground . " there was no guarantee that the 70 - ton glider would clear manhattan ' s skyline .

tyson helped track down whether the movie rights to matheson’s story had been optioned , and eventually discovered that a teleplay was in development at abc and universal with producer george eckstein . spielberg took a meeting with eckstein , and brought a rough cut of his legendary 73 - minute series premiere episode of columbo , “murder by the book . ” eckstein was impressed , and gave spielberg the job to direct duel after a follow - up meeting where the filmmaker laid out how he envisioned the film from matheson’s screenplay in full .

the wishing song and the dance sequences offer all kinds of hilarious riffing opportunities . tom does what he does best , add hilarious riffs to the music and lyrics . when a dance number starts , mike focuses on the painful smile on jeff’s face and says in a strained voice “honey , help ! i can’t stop smiling ! ” mike decides that the film “is the perfect pairing with eraserhead ” . while that is a hilarious thought , i believe that once upon a honeymoon is one of the perfect pairings for mike and the bots .

for the most part , season seven is a final hurrah for the cast and crew . you get the feeling here that they were going to go out with a bang , and why not start with something that fit their mo – a black and white sci - fi film with no budget . having already tested their mettle with some of the most painful films ever made in season six ( coleman francis trilogy of pain , not to mention starfighters and racket girls ) , even this slog - fest from cormanland couldn’t keep the boys down .

it was at the height of the mccarthyite purges , and reagan was head of the screen actors’ guild . the ostensible reason for the meeting was that nancy had been confused with a leftwing actor of the same name and was afraid of being blacklisted for her supposed communist leanings . the chemistry between the two emerged at this first encounter , but reagan , still bruised by his divorce in 1949 from the actor jane wyman , did not propose for a further two years . when the couple married in 1952 , the film industry was in turmoil and both their careers were under threat .

thanks so much for writing tom . these figures are humans before they are political symbols , as least as far as this author is concerned . and yes , from many of the newspaper reviews of her appearances at the time her films hit the screen , nancy davis was given consistently high marks for her performances . the problem was the poor material . and she was perpetually cast in one - dimensional roles . what a turn of fate had she won a role in a larger film – one might wonder if she’d have married and then further wonder what ronald reagan’s career direction might have been .

the most disturbing part of the pre - crash sequence is williams’ conversation with little teddy , informing him that he will have to leave his dog wilbur behind on the sinking plane because pets aren’t as important as people and we can’t jeopardize the safety of others by attempting to save some animal . teddy somehow accepts this wisdom with the reassurance that wilbur will be given his baseball cap as a little memento of teddy when he’s left behind . and what about all those pet birds in cargo ? in one truly astonishing sequence , the co - pilot and the stewardess open one of the plane windows while in flight and begin tossing out parakets and parrots . the scene barely lasts 30 seconds but i thought i was hallucinating while watching this .

shadow on the wall ( 1950 ) gave davis her first substantial part , as a cool - headed child psychiatrist , trying to get the truth of a murder witnessed by a young girl . the title of william wellman’s the next voice you hear … ( 1950 ) refers to a mysterious voice on the radio claiming to be god that davis as the pregnant mary smith and her blue - collar worker husband joe ( james whitmore ) hear every night . the film was a comforting exploration of faith , in which davis , according to the new york times , “was delightful as the gentle , plain and understanding wife” .

this low - budget drama about a passenger airplane that develops engine trouble mid - atlantic and is forced to ditch in the ocean has troubles of its own holding the audience ' s attention . there is the usual varied assortment of characters , with flashbacks to their lives on terra firma merely dissipating any tension that might have been built up over the impending splashdown . gary merrill is the captain , while nancy davis plays his wife ; she quit acting after this film to concentrate on life as mrs ronald reagan . there are no surprises at the climax , either , in one of the last films directed by b - feature specialist fred f sears .

it all begins with the short film from 1956 , once upon a honeymoon . all songwriter jeff ( ward ellis ) and his wife mary ( virginia gibson ) want to do is go on their honeymoon . they were married a year ago , but jeff was so swamped with his work on a play that the honeymoon was put off . just as they are about to leave , they get a call from jeff’s boss . the lead actress in the show is demanding a rewrite of the song . despair starts to creep in as the couple attempts to come up with a song . little do they know that their guardian angel , wilber ( chick chandler ) has a bit of heavenly magic ready to help them out .

gave the film a positive review , stating , " the giant claw has a terrible reputation that isn ' t entirely deserved – to be sure , producer sam katzman opted for the cheapest , worst - looking monster that one could imagine , a ridiculous - looking giant bird puppet that makes the movie seem ludicrous . but except for those moments when the title monster is on the screen , the movie isn ' t bad – so for the first 27 minutes , until it appears for the first time and evokes its first rounds of laughter , the picture is working just fine within the confines of its budget , script , and cast " . allmovie also complimented morrow ' s performance as " the best thing in the picture " .

it comes to a head in possibly the film ' s silliest single scene , which finds whip visiting his bible - thumping co - pilot and the man ' s wife at his hospital bedside . ( when whip says he ' s happy to be alive , mrs . co - pilot quickly corrects him : " blessed to be alive . " ) " nothing happens by accident in the kingdom of the lord , " the co - pilot thunders , as the wife actually kisses the cross around her neck behind him , a moment of both painful literalism and amateurish upstaging . she then starts proclaiming " praise jesus " during her husband ' s little sermon , a moment that is played for oddly incongruent laughs , since the movie is barely subtler than she is .

most disaster films have large - scale special effects ( especially in the recent past ' s mega - budget spectaculars ) , huge casts of stars faced with the crisis , a persevering hero or heroine ( i . e . , charlton heston , steve mcqueen , etc . ) called upon to lead the struggle against the threat , and many plot - lines affecting multiple characters . in many cases , the ' evil ' or ' selfish ' individuals are the first to succumb to the conflagration . as in any sub - genre , the move to capitalize on the ' disaster film ' trend has led to many sub - par disaster films , with weak and unsubtle , formulaic plots , improbable circumstances and bad science , poor character development , and laughable acting from third - rate stars portraying cliched characters .

yet the hand of god ( well , his disciples , anyway ) is all over flight . when whip brings in his plane for its open - field landing , the wing crashes into the steeple of a nearby church , whose members are performing baptisms in a nearby pond , wouldn ' t you know it , at that very instant . ( it ' s a laughably unsubtle moment in a movie filled with them . ) shortly before the flight , the chief flight attendant is giving whip the business for not going to church ; as he lays in the hospital recovering , his pilot ' s union rep ( bruce greenwood ) tells him , " the way you landed that plane was nothing short of a miracle . " while in the hospital , whip shares a secret smoke with a cancer patient , who delivers a faith - floating monologue , assigning the randomness of the universe—everything from his cancer to his impending death to his meeting the pilot at that moment—to the big guy upstairs . the co - pilot ' s wife , we ' re told , has informed the press , " god landed that plane . "

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imagine this . you are on a flight from lisbon , portugal to new york city and , in the dead of night over the middle of the atlantic ocean , the pilot’s voice on the intercom suddenly jolts you awake with these words , “can i have your attention please . this is captain williams . we’re in an emergency situation . we may have to ditch . ” you might be able to ditch your girlfriend , boyfriend or spouse but it’s not so easy to ditch a plane as demonstrated by the principals of

engineer : for crying out loud , captain . don’t you ever let up ?

like dana andrews’ neurotic pilot in zero hour ! , williams turns out to have had a traumatic world war ii experience that has made him the super grumpus he is today . of course , we don’t get to see that flashback in this cheapo disasterpiece but we get merrill’s clinch - jawed recounting of the episode in close - up . throughout the movie merrill and his co - stars act up a storm in the cockpit as a substitute for exciting special effects or visual diversions . my favorite moments are when pilot and co - pilot dramatically clutch their steering wheels and shake uncontrollably to depict turbulence while the camera occasionally tilts from side to side to demonstrate the plane pitching .