agripper Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Been trying to find a copy of an old film. I think it was made in either the later 70's or early 80's. F|ilm by by the name of "Soul survivor" it was loosly based on the story of the B24 liberator "Lady be Good" which went down in the libian desert after a raid when the crew got lost. The story is about the crew who are all around the remains of there crashed B25 , they think they are still alive and awaiting rescue. Does anyone remember this film and alsl know where I might get a copy. Have tried amazon and play.com but get a more modern film. There has to be a lot of other aviation based films with the remains old war birds. There was one I have seen resently on Sky which shows the remains of a B25 but not sure if a film prop or the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark m uk Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Yes I remember the film - it featured a B-25 in the remake. Cant for the life of me remember what it was called - try looking or searching horror Genre, rather than War, because I believe it ends with the revelation that all the characters are in fact ghosts. I think I remember that they all hang around the plane wreck - but gradually they dissapear one by one. they are dissapearing as their 'real' bodies are found. The one guy that does not dissapear but is condemned to an eternity alone at the crash site is the tail gunner - because his body is never found. It remained hidden and buried under the tail section. ...............er yeah, I think thats the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 i think so too ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 was it sole survivor?(william shatner in it ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 About Sole Survivor here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_Survivor_(1970_film) Watch it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6A_qNAQCGU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 or this ...Most likely the "film" you have in mind is Bomber's Moon. A Playhouse 90 production that was directed by John Frankenheimer, written by Rod Serling and featured Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Cliff Robertson, Rip Torn among others. It was filmed in 1958 around an actual wrecked B-25 in the Mojave Desert. A complete work of fiction it was however "inspired" by the then recent discovery of a B-24 wreck from WWII. Found in the Africa desert, the crew lost its way returning from a night mission. One by one, all of the crew bailed out right before the plane ran out of fuel. A crewman's diary related a chilling story of their vain attempts to survive the Sahara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agripper Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Can't remember who was in it just that I enjoyed it. When I was a teenager always wanted to have my own bomber to has a den. Would have taken that B25 off there hands and found space for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 believe might have been a twilight zone episode...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 type sole survivor 1970 in wikipedia .......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 type sole survivor 1970 in wikipedia .......... See post 5... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 (edited) i did, (thought your links might not work , with the forum being like it is , not all comp savvy on here ) Edited October 23, 2009 by Willyslancs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark m uk Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Wasn't there some controversy about the bodies being found wearing life jackets ? and someone figured that at night the desert could have a look of waves, they thought they were over the sea ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 that rings a bell mate .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Sole Survivor CBS’ first made-for-TV movie, Sole Survivor is a fantasy yarn founded on fact. 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 (Richard Basehart), 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 (Vince Edwards), plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die. Also starring 5 Minutes to Live favorite William Shatner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 The Lady be good was indeed wrecked in the desert and they mistoke the desert for sea because it was night. All but 1 body was found. I read it in a then and now from 1981 ish (still have it). They found a journal on 1 of the bodies describing their ordeal. It allways makes me sad when I think about it. Would make a tragic movie if they filed it as it happened and not "inspired by bla bla). I allready see the final scene in my mids eye... Camera on the last man, camera zooms out reavealing a vast sand desert.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agripper Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 Thanks for the youtube link. Forgot they used Champs instead of jeeps. Does anyone know where the B25 came from. did they use a real airframe or a mock up, ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 I had a copy of After The Battle with a peice on the Lady Be Good an amzing discovery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 The B-25 in 'Sole Survivor' was a real aircraft, carfully dismantled and posed in an almost identical position as B-24 'Lady Be Good'. After the filming, it was displayed at Buena Park, California. The plane was broken up in the early 1970's although some parts may survive at Planes of Fame, Chino, CA. B-24 'Lady Be Good' was recovered from the desert by the Libyans and there are now plans for a Warfare Museum in which 'Lady Be Good' will be displayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan turner (RIP) Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 if memory serves there was a Dick Powell playhouse that featured the lady be good story many moons ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 When I last googled it LBG was resting in some compund somewhere in Libya - now that the political situation has changed I wonder if there is a chance of this poignant relic being recovered and conserved somewhere more fitting...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I would think that rebuilding the country will take priority. I can't see anything happening to the B-24 for at least the next ten years, assuming it survived the bombing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The last image I saw of the LBG was a sad few scraps of metal , just barely aircraft shaped , not even sure what part of the aircraft it was , this was in the last week or two ,not sure where I came across the photo . the only bits of it that exist intact are at the Wright Patterson Museum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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