Lost Flight

Lost Flight (1970)

They survived by chance......They lived by fear

The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."

Date of release
1970-08-13
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
TV Movie, Drama, Action
Director
Leonard Horn

Casting

Interesting facts

Lost Flight is a 1969 dramatic film written and produced for television based on producer Frank Price's unsuccessful 1966 TV pilot, Stranded, that instead had a theatrical release in the US and Australia from mid-1970 through 1971. The plot resembles that of later disaster genre films and approximates an adult version of Lord of the Flies.

Production

Producer Frank Price originally came up with the idea of stranded passengers on a deserted island in 1966, naming his proposed TV series Stranded. When that project failed to attract much interest, it was put on hold with a new two-hour pilot movie later hatched in 1968 that resulted in Lost Flight. The pilot film was ordered by CBS but did not lead to a series, and the film did not air in 1969 as originally planned.

Capt. J.S. Solomon from Trans World Airlines (TWA) was the technical advisor on the film. A Boeing 707-138B N790SA on lease from Standard Airways served as the airliner in the film painted in the fictional Trans-Pacific livery. Location shooting at Honolulu Airport in Hawaii showed the movie stand-in being fueled and loaded while surrounded by JAL and United DC-8s and Pan American 707s.

On November 23, 1968, the last day of shooting, Billy Dee Williams married model and actress Marlene Clark on the set in Kauai. The couple wanted to get married right away, and since the company was due to wrap production and return to Honolulu at the end of the day that Saturday, Producer Paul Donnelly decided to spring into action and make the wedding happen.

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