The Twilight Zone
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The Last FlightEpisode Number: 18 Season Num: 1 First Aired: February 5, 1960 Prod Code: 173-3607 |
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
| Writer: | Richard Matheson |
| Director: | William F. Claxton |
| Star: | Rod Serling (Narrator/Host), Kenneth Haigh (Flight Lt. Decker) |
| Guest Star: | Jack Perkins (Mechanic), Jerry Catron (Guard), Harry Raybould (Corporal), Robert Warwick (Air Vice Marshal Alexander Mackaye), Alexander Scourby (General Harper), Simon Scott (Major Wilson), Paul Baxley (Jeep Driver) |
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Writer Richard Matheson intended the title "The Last Flight" to have a double meaning - refering both to Flight Lt Decker's final mission as well as his final flight from cowardness.
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The vintage 1918 Nieuport biplane was both owned and flown by Frank Gifford Tallman, and had previously appeared in many World War I motion pictures.
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Filmed on location at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California.
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Included on volume 10 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
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(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Dialogue from a play, Hamlet to Horatio: "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Dialogue from a play written long before men took to the sky. There are more things in heaven and earth, and in the sky, that perhaps can be dreamt of. And somewhere in between heaven, the sky, the earth, lies the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: Witness Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker, Royal Flying Corps, returning from a patrol somewhere over France. The year is 1917. The problem is that the Lieutenant is hopelessly lost. Lieutenant Decker will soon discover that a man can be lost not only in terms of maps and miles, but also in time, and time in this case can be measured in eternities. (edit)
Narrator: Dialogue from a play, Hamlet to Horatio: "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Dialogue from a play written long before men took to the sky. There are more things in heaven and earth, and in the sky, that perhaps can be dreamt of. And somewhere in between heaven, the sky, the earth, lies the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: Witness Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker, Royal Flying Corps, returning from a patrol somewhere over France. The year is 1917. The problem is that the Lieutenant is hopelessly lost. Lieutenant Decker will soon discover that a man can be lost not only in terms of maps and miles, but also in time, and time in this case can be measured in eternities. (edit)
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The Last FlightGood "Above average" An episode that ends with a positive note and speaks in its own subtle way about the laws of cause and effect. Continue » Posted Mar 27, 2006 2:53 am PST |
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The Last FlightSuperb "Adventurous" A World War I fighter pilot lands his plane at an American Air Force Base 42 years after he took off. Continue » Posted Mar 19, 2006 4:51 pm PST |
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