Murder on Flight 502 (1975)

Good movie

It's amazing to me what some people will say about movies and most of it doesn't make sense. I bought this movie because it had a very beautiful woman who 4 years later land a usage role in a classic TV show. Robert Stack plays the role of Captain Larkin, Hugh O'Brien plays the role of Detective Daniel Myerson, and the beautiful young women was Farrah Fawcett majors who played the role of Karen White. This was your typical airplane movie where it took about 15 minutes or more to set up everybody roles that would occur on the flight 502. After the jumbo jet takes off Captain Larkin gets a radio call from security in New York City. First, a box was found in the first class section that security thought it was a bomb that turned out to be a smoking jack in the box. Next security finds a note in the lounge with an ominous message left by a passenger threatening to kill some of the passengers. At first, it is thought to be a sick joke, but soon a man posing as a priest and a flight attendant are killed. It is up to the captain to find the killer before the body count increases. All and all the weasel gives this movie 8 star. As far as Farrah Fawcett Majors goes, she did a great job at being the flight attendant in charge.


February 13, 2007

Judge for yourself!

This is a good TV movie mystery. Sometimes it's just fun to watch a good mystery. Terrorists? I didn't see any. But I do have to comment on some knocks to this film's cast.
I read in a previous review about Had Beens and Almost Weres? Obviously someone under 25.
Ralph Bellamy and Walter Pidgeon are character actors with many years of expertise and are/were excellent actors, not "Had Beens". The same reviewer's "Almost Were" Fernanado Lamas was a sex symbol star a couple generations ago and is a veteran actor with a great deal of talent. The other Almost was, Polly Bergan, who co-starred in Cape Fear with Gregory Peck, is a veteran actor with many films under her belt and a former cosmetics executive as well. Sonny Bono was pretty good at several things before his untimely death, one of them being mayor of Palm Springs. Danny Bonoduce is just Danny Bonoduce, I'll leave it at that.

So what is the requirement to be a "worthy actor"? Not to do TV movies? Then an awful lot of very skilled actors and former big stars are in trouble.
This film is an enjoyable mystery with a wonderful, talented and experienced cast. No more, no less.
January 21, 2006

Your security stinks!!

So barks iron-jawed Robert Stack at the end of this draining flight. This movie is almost more than a body can handle. Flight 502 leaves New York for London on a routine flight, routine that is until a letter shows up in the first class lounge. There will be murders on this flight.

But who is the killer? Who will be the victims? And why? Could it be the priest who wears fingernail polish? The Davy Partridge look-alike kid who likes to play with smoke bombs? The has been rock star? The bank robber? The mystery novelist? The doctor? Or could it be the lovely stewardess played by Farrah Fawcett-Majors?

I cannot give the ending away because it will blow your mind. Even Agatha Christie could not com eup with a plot with so many twists and turns. But I'll give you a hint. When the second stewardess spills her suitcase, look at the contents VERY carefully. January 4, 2005

God didn't take her from us - he did!

Okay, you know the drill - there's a killer on board the plane, a controller is sweating over the microphone and scouring the city for a psychologist, the plane teems with the suspicious.
MURDER ON FLIGHT 502 is cheesy fun. It owes its existence to the popularity of real movies like AIRPORT and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Like those predecessors, this made-for-television movie (1975) is chock full of familiar faced guest stars. Small screen stalwarts like Hugh O'Brien and Robert Stack, had-beens like Walter Pidgeon and Ralph Bellamy, almost-weres like Fernando Lamas and Polly Bergen, annoying gadflies like Sonny Bono and Danny Bonaduce. Directed by George McCowan, who went on to direct television's "Fantasy Island," which ought to be all the warning you need.
Don't expect too much and you shouldn't be disappointed. I was either lucky or this movie was very transparent - I figured out who the killer was before the end of the first act. Pleasant in polyester.
December 2, 2004

A good mystery

I have read several plot analysis written by the "pros" and they seem to be all wrong. There is no terrorist on the plane. The story is about a letter that is found in the first class airport lounge after an international flight has taken off. The letter states that there will be murders before the flight lands. The best part is the "WHO IS THE KILLER" set-up. Farrah is in one of her first roles and just as lovely as ever. Adam Brooks talent was not shown enough. March 30, 2001

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