"Murder on flight 502" tells the story of the first class of a flight from the states to London, that receives an anonymous threat, that some of the passengers are about to be murdered throughout the trip. The pilot, the airport security and a policeman on board team up to solve the case and arrest the murderer before it is too late.The whole movie breathes the 70's. It surely wasn't produced with a very high budget and the outcome is somewhat alike. The way how the plot is built kind of reminds me of old Agatha Christie movies, where the audience is more or less trying to collect clues to find out who could be the bad guy in the end. There are some bigger logical errors in the film and generally the events don't seem to be all too realistic but if you can accept this you can actually be well entertained by the movie and have a surprisingly good time with it. The character evolution is maybe a bit foreseeable and some of the characters are brutally one-dimensional, but in exchange the film manages to keep the tension up and create some false hints that may leave some viewers surprised.All in all this is a mediocre movie, neither bad nor anything special. It is a solid 70's crime movie that you should give a try if both elements are of some interest for you and you find the general plot appealing.

When you watch this movie, you wonder if the guy who wrote the script has ever taken a flight in his whole life, if he knows what are flying regulations for take of and landing; what happens for passengers after a shock of this magnitude when arriving at a national or international airport.How can any sensible producer accept to finance such a stupid, unbelievable story and how can a director accept to have his name attached to such a nonsense of a production.Even a debutant in the film industry would be ashamed of committing himself in such a project.Yes the only thing you should do is to cancel your booking on this flight!

A murderer is loose on board Dumbbell Airlines.Collection of idiots on a 747 get picked off one by one as the half-wits back at the airport try to figure out what the hell is going on. Farrah stars as a ditzy stew, Sonny Bono is a goofy musician, Theodore Bikel is a spooky weirdo, Danny Bonaduce is a prank-pulling punk, and Robert Stack is Mr. Bigshot Pilot who would like to stay and chat but he's got to get back to the cockpit because, "somebody's gotta 'drive' this airplane." Polly Bergen is cute as a sexy drunken chick. I'm with her........ get the hell out of my seat, Fernando Lamas!

If you've seen Airplane!, enjoyed Airplane! and perhaps wondered where Airplane! got some of its inspiration from, check out Murder on Flight 502. My brother found it for the astounding price of one dollar American, and for that single bill you get Robert Stack, Farrah Fawcett, Sonny Bono, and...Danny Bonaduce? Oh, but yes. And there's more. As the film tepidly moves along, begging you to find the murderer among the passengers before anyone is actually murdered, you'll be treated to outrageous mid-70's fashion (brown is IN!), bizarre character backgrounds, and the hottest burgeoning romance this side of Harold and Maude, an elderly Jewish woman and an elderly Methodist known only as Uncle Charlie. "Ah...I know half the story already!" says the elderly woman slyly after Uncle Charlie introduces himself, and believe me, you will know every sundry detail of Uncle Charlie's hard knock life, even though it's probably better that you didn't.You will see Sonny Bono sing, and you will realize why Cher was much better on her own. Robert Stack will make Bruce Willis in Die Hard look bad with his endless barrage of hard-boiled, sarcastic one-liners. But most of all, you will figure out who the murderer is, and you will be satisfied when they get their comeuppance.No, there is no singing stewardess, no jive-talkers, no inflatable auto-pilot, no Leslie Neilsen. But unless you are unable to mock the earnest, but futile work of many to make a taut murder mystery shot almost entirely on a plane full of large, orange seats, you will like Murder on Flight 502. I promise.