The Crowded Sky

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Shesha H @RT01169021 Sep 23 This gem deserves a cult following. You can’t look away; even the slow scenes are fascinating in their earnest absurdity. There are moments when it seems the cast must be in on the joke, particularly when Troy Donahue confides to a man that his girlfriend is pregnant, all while the theme from A Summer Place plays on a jukebox in the background. The Crowded Sky would be great fun to watch in a revival house with other fans of the genre. See more Ken E @RT21774098 Sep 15 A really weird mixed up movie which flirts with being a flying turkey. The story is about two aircraft, one a passenger plane the other a military jet, on converging flight paths. The flashbacks are done in a kind of brutal but interesting way. The backstories range from the mundane to the interesting - but they tend to beg more questions. Spoiler alert: The movie has a tremendous hole at the end: After killing off four characters, there’s zero resolution of their stories. We’ve been primed to know a lot about two of the doomed characters from the start but then, nothing. I’m sure scenes were shot and thrown into the edit room floor. The survivors just go happily off on their way. The angle about the copilot with an artistic bent and unresolved family issues is a good story. The art pieces are really good. The best saving grace of the movie, however, is Anne Francis who steals the show as a flight attendant. She’s a delightful actress and she above all is the one worth watching in this movie and salvages the experience. Watch it for her. See more Herodotas G @RT33443040 05/20/2025 This movie is incredible, a true misfire of biblical proportions. I was confused from scene one! The viewer is delighted with many absurd flashbacks that do absolutely nothing to increase your attachment to the cliché characters. For lovers of comedy and pain alike this is manna from bad movie heaven- trash that simply has to be seen to be believed! See more 07/29/2019 Bad acting and a sometimes humorous plot (unintentional) buoy interest in this soap opera disaster movie. See more 12/03/2014 Overwrought and with clunky special effects this is a still entertaining precusor to Airport and all it's many follow-ups. See more Read all reviews

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