Sole Survivor
Classic film review: "Sole Survivor". Some films stay in your mind for a lifetime. One such film is "Sole Survivor". It aired on January 9th, 1970 as a "CBS Friday Night Movie". The film is loosely based on the fate of B-24 Liberator bomber known as "Lady Be Good" and it's crew. After a raid on Naples on April 4, 1943, the crew goes in the wrong direction and ends up flying hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. Somewhere over the desert, the crew bail out. The plane wreck was found in 1958 by a survey aircraft. After a search, all but one of the crew remains were found. The film is written as an investigation drama and begins at the time of finding of the aircraft. Richard Basehat plays Big Gen. Russell Hammer, the sole survivor of the B-25 Mitchell bomber known as "Home Run", which was presumed to have been lost at sea. The General is then flown to the crash site as part of an off...