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Sole Survivor

1970 · 100 min Drama Fantasy TV Movie
6.4 / 10 · TMDB

In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.

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Year 1970
Country United States of America
Genre Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie
Director Paul Stanley
Runtime 100 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.4/10 (23 votes)

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This teleplay constructs its tension from the parallel between a dry military investigation and the restless vigil of spectral airmen. It relies on dialogue and stark desert imagery to explore themes of guilt and unresolved duty, transforming a war story into a haunting moral parable about the past's inescapability.

What lingers after the final frame is the quiet weight of its central confrontation, where truth becomes the only possible salvation for both the living and the dead. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Paul Stanley

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