A superb film and a pleasant surprise to come across it on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqxZoVLn6Tg.Compelling from start to finish and very original even though based on a true story.The story is well presented and unfolds cleverly keeping you thinking all the time and not quite sure what is going to happen next. Shatner is fine even though he still playing Kirk as in all his films. The performances of the the aviators are great and the casting is spot on. I started watching this film at 1am and only intended to watch the first half hour but couldn't stop watching it until the I reached the satisfying conclusion. Very very good!

After a B-24 heavy bomber was discovered in the Libyan desert years ago, it inspired this interesting little film. It's about a B-25 (a much smaller bomber) that is discovered in the same desert and it presents an odd sort of mystery...as the surviving crew member was picked up near Sicily...yet the plane crashed into the desert on the other side of the Mediterranean. This makes the story that the survivor (now a General) a complete lie. How could the man have jumped out of a burning plane...yet it continued on its way for hundreds and hundreds of miles?The way this mystery is presented it VERY novel. For much of the early portion of the film, you see it from the viewpoint of the crew...all alive and huddled around their crashed plane. Soon you realize what's happened...these men are really dead and the men are but ghosts! So, when the plane is discovered and Air Force folks come to investigate, the ghosts are cheering them on--pushing them to uncover the truth. One officer (William Shatner) is in favor of just sweeping everything under the rug, so to speak. The other is anxious to get to the truth (Vince Edwards)...regardless of the consequences. Weird...but very unusual and worth seeing, as I really appreciate innovative film work...and this is very unusual to say the least! Plus, it's very well made and the acting is superb.

I found this movie in a list of ghost movies, but it is not really a ghost-story. I mean: the usual story in which the protagonist is afraid of the ghosts, who are making their presence felt more and more, and suddenly appear looking very scary, making you jump. In "Sole Survivor", when the protagonist IS confronted by the ghosts, we who are watching are already used to them - and they never look scary to us.So, this is more a story of morals, corruption, guilt etc. among officers and pilots in the aftermath of World War II. The ghosts could quite as well have been only figments of the protagonist's guilty conscience, but this is not so - it is obvious that they are supposed to be true spirits of dead people.There are also some interesting ideas about what happen to us after death, and when we are among the ghosts the atmosphere is surreal and dream-like - very similar to that in "The Others".This mixture of cynic realism and vivid imagination, is very unusual in movies I believe. I almost could not decide if I liked this movie or not, because it kept me hooked - but at the same time the whole set-up felt quite weird.

I must have seen this as a young child in the 70's and as an adult I have searched many times for this film, not knowing it's name. I've spent hours pouring over lists of movies, from 'war' to 'ghost' categories and maybe never found it as it was made for TV. i would never have guessed it wasn't a cinema release such was it's impact.I found it funnily enough by looking up 'sole survivor' the name of a book on a little boy who strangely enough is the reincarnated sole of a second world war pilot (check out his story, his name is James Leiningerand they are making his story into a film)This 1970 film is excellent and left a deep impression on me, the final scenes in particular. I'd love to get hold of a copy as I only saw it once over 30 years ago. The details of the plot in my mind are pretty sketchy now but the mood and drama of it created a very strong impression on me.