Murder on Flight 502

TV Movie
1975
TV-PG
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

754

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Farrah Fawcett and Robert Stack in Murder on Flight 502 (1975)

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After a jet plane leaves New York en route to London, a note is found in the lounge with a message threatening to kill passengers. Soon, two passengers are killed. Captain Larkin must find t... Read allAfter a jet plane leaves New York en route to London, a note is found in the lounge with a message threatening to kill passengers. Soon, two passengers are killed. Captain Larkin must find the killer before the body count increases.After a jet plane leaves New York en route to London, a note is found in the lounge with a message threatening to kill passengers. Soon, two passengers are killed. Captain Larkin must find the killer before the body count increases.

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

754

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The uniforms worn by the airlines female crew members are actual TWA Stewardess uniforms worn during the winter months from 1968-1971. The same uniforms can be seen at the end of Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can".

Goofs
Flight 502 is cleared to take-off from "runway 90" at Kennedy Airport. Not only does Kennedy Airport not have such a runway, but it would not exist in real life, as runways are numbered according to heading in tens of degrees (1 to 36).

Quotes
Paul Barons: [to his drunken seat-mate] Can't you get it through that pickled brain of yours that there's a homicidal maniac on board?

Connections
Referenced in Airplane! (1980)

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Hilarious 70's TV Movie

What a cast that has been assembled as only Aaron Spelling can do! the dialogue is so corny and played so seriously, you'll be howling. The best exchanges are between a drunk Polly Bergen and a very sober Fernando Lamas. The sets are really almost "Plan 9 From Outer Space" level. The "VIP lounge" at the airport was probably a baggage office at LAX and the plane, well, the budget was only enough to show the first class section, so all you see are big blankets/curtains covering the entrances to the rest of the plane and several references by Captain Stack to the "hundreds of people back there."

The upstairs lounge of the plane is decorated in what appears to be outdoor patio furniture and during the course of the film, the scariest looking cheese and crackers fester along the back of the wall uneaten by these high-falutin' jet-setters who spout inane dialogue as the viewer tries to wade through the red herrings and Farrah's cocktail service.

The whodunnit wraps up quickly, of course. Suprises? No. Laughs? Yes!

The $5.00 DVD I got of this in the Best Buy junk pile is covered in Farrah's photos and the DVD even includes a "Farrah Quiz" at the end that even your mother could not flunk. Thanks to Barry Diller and Spelling/Goldberg for making these tacky ABC "Movies of the Week" in the 70's and for someone actually mastering these DVD coasters that provide some of us with a hilarious flashback to our youth.