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Released
1970 · FILM

Sole Survivor

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Runtime
100 min
DramaFantasyTV Movie

Synopsis

In 1960, the wreckage of an American bomber was discovered in the Libyan desert, though the remains of the crew were never found. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of the bomber crew linger around their abandoned aircraft, waiting for the day their bones are recovered and given a proper burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has become a general over the course of the next 25 years. He joins an investigation team that has located the wreckage, while the ghosts, led by Major Devlin, seek to reveal Hamner as a coward who abandoned his post and left his comrades to die.

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Principal cast & crew: 16

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Renn ReynoldsShot by James CrabeScored by Paul Glass

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