# So What Was This Movie I Saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177 "2003-07-04T04:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/1 "2003-07-04T04:00:21Z")
Ages ago, when I was a kid, I saw an old movie about a plane crash. The film must have been done in the late 1950s or early 1960s as it was in black and white and centered on the efforts of the investigators trying to reconstruct what caused the crash. I have no idea who any of the actors were. What I can remember of the film, the lead investigator of the crash was good friends with one of the pilots on the plane and they had to totally rebuild the plane in order to find out what went wrong. The one scene I can remember is where the lead investigator is standing in the doorway of the hanger, looking at the plane and a man says something like, “They never should have rebuilt her.” In the end, the investigator takes the plane (or one like it) out on a flight to re-enact what happened in the crash. It turns out that the plane started having mechanical problems and there was so much chaos in the cabin that the pilot of the plane got confused and made a mistake which led to the crash. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/2 "2003-07-04T04:14:05Z")
Sounds like either _Twilight Zone_ or _Outer Limits_. The originals. I vaguely remember that plot line. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/3 "2003-07-04T04:14:22Z")
Maybe [No Highway](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0043859) starring Jimmy Stewart as an aeronautical engineer. I saw it on TV in b/w long long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/4 "2003-07-04T04:23:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > \*\*Maybe [No Highway](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0043859) starring Jimmy Stewart as an aeronautical engineer. I saw it on TV in b/w long long ago. \*\* Nope. Not even close. In the film I saw, the plane crashes in the first reel of the movie, and they spend the rest of the film trying to figure out what happened. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/5 "2003-07-04T04:29:31Z")
Was a cup of coffee involved in the crash? Serious. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/6 "2003-07-04T04:48:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Was a cup of coffee involved in the crash? Serious. \*\* I don’t remember, but I know it was a movie, and not an hour long TV show like _Twilight Zone_ or _The Outer Limits_. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/7 "2003-07-04T04:50:15Z")
[Any of these?](http://www.airodyssey.net/articles/movies.html) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/8 "2003-07-04T05:02:25Z")
[Fate Is the Hunter](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0058091) (1964), starring Glenn Ford as the investigator. It does open with the airplane crash. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/9 "2003-07-04T05:05:27Z")
Nope. All of those are recent movies in color. I would have watched this movie somewhere between 20 to 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/10 "2003-07-04T05:08:13Z")
That’s the one i was searching for, **Wallon**. The surviving stewardess does everything just as before and coffee is the culprit. Don’t know about the OP, though… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/11 "2003-07-04T05:11:05Z")
_Fate Is The Hunter_ IS black and white. At least, that’s what IMDB’s page says. Look all the way down at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/12 "2003-07-04T05:11:09Z")
My “nope” was directed at **NoClueBoy**. I think you’ve found the movie **Walloon**. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-this-movie-i-saw/186177/13 "2003-07-04T05:16:17Z")
All hail **Walloon**! I had fun wallowing through all the movie and tv show show links I ran across. A lot of stuff I want to see!