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Sole Survivor is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Stanley released in USA on 9 january 1970 with Vince Edwards

Sole Survivor (1970)

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Released in USA 9 january 1970
Length 1h30
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Fantasy
Rating72% 3.6330953.6330953.6330953.6330953.633095

Sole Survivor is an ABC Movie of the Week starring Richard Basehart, William Shatner, and Vince Edwards. The film, written by Hollywood screenwriter Guerdon Trueblood and directed by Paul Stanley, was first aired on television in 1970. It is loosely based on the 1958 discovery of the Lady Be Good in the Libyan desert. The B-24 Liberator had disappeared without trace following its first and only combat mission in World War II in 1943.

Synopsis

While returning from a World War II bombing mission, a United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber sustains damage from action with German fighters. Without any order to abandon the aircraft, the navigator, Hamner (Basehart), panics and bails out. The aircraft, now lost due to having no navigator, and the remaining crew overfly their base and continue on for another 700 miles before eventually crash landing in the Libyan desert.

Actors

Vince Edwards

(Maj. Michael Devlin)
Richard Basehart

(Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner)
William Shatner

(Lt. Col. Josef Gronke)
Lou Antonio

(Tony)
Patrick Wayne

(Mac)
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