Sign in Register. News Guardian. Recent queries. Send a query. Lucky dip. Any answers? Nooks and crannies. Semantic enigmas. The body beautiful. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science.
This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. A plane has crashed and the cast of the film turn out to be ghosts who 'disappear' as their bodies are recovered. In the end there is one sole 'ghost' until the searchers return and find his body under the tail plane.
Have I imagined this as no one seems to know what i'm talking about? I'm pretty sure it was an episode of The Twilight Zone, though, not a film as such. If memory serves it may even have been directed by Steven Spielberg. The crew of US airmen had crashed their WW2 plane when a bomb got stuck in the bomb bay. They could not die properly until their remains had been found but their ghosts were accessible though some sort of time portal.
The last scene was of the final guy being discovered beneath the wrecked tail plane. I know a couple of people who have seen it but neither can remember its name, nor any of the cast. I too have searched on databases and have even gone into chat rooms to ask people! I am afraid I can't help with the title, but I can assure you that it is not your imagination unless we are both crazy! One person did suggest that it may have been a "Twilight Zone" episode, but I remember it as a feature length film.
I think, although it was set in WWII, it was made in the late 60s or early 70s. The wreckage is found twenty-odd years later, and among the recovery party is a USAF general Richard Basehart who was the young navigator who got them lost, then bailed out on them.
