What happened in that film, on TV years ago? A weeknight – I abandoned it and went to bed. It may have been James Stewart. He is an aircraft engineer travelling on a plane. He has just worked it all out, new revolutionary calculations: a plane will break apart after a certain number of hours in the air. Soon, soon—it’s about to happen on this particular flight! But of course no one will listen. Not the pilot, a smug idiot—the script must have killed him off later on as punishment. Not anyone. Fools, the lot of them. But there’s a young pretty air stewardess who seems quite spunky… So how did James Stewart prove his point? Was there a crash? Some obligatory casualties to join the punished pilot—disposable goody-goody characters, so decent and kind-hearted it would be horribly unfair that they should die? There are always noble-minded geniuses who know the appalling state of things. They claim their victims. In real life, of course, good people are never disposable.
1990s
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