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The High and the Mighty (1954)
Another one I was watching primarily for Newton, but being a classic airplane-disaster movie, this one’s an ensemble piece. The copy on the Robert Newton channel might not be the one I watched, which was fairly terrible— picture occasionally broke up, sound occasionally got out of synch, and the last minute or so was cut off.
It’s not-really-a-spoiler that the plane had safely landed by that point, but I was enjoying the scene of the passengers and crew disembarking, and would like to have seen the end of the movie. I tried checking the script on scripts.com, which presented its own difficulties — scripts.com gives you the dialogue and nothing else, not even which character is speaking; however I was pleased to confirm from that the stewardess (Doe Avedon), the Korean lady (Joy Kim), and the older man with a terminal illness (Paul Fix) all went out on that dinner date they’d been discussing.
It’s not-really-a-spoiler that the plane had safely landed by that point, but I was enjoying the scene of the passengers and crew disembarking, and would like to have seen the end of the movie. I tried checking the script on scripts.com, which presented its own difficulties — scripts.com gives you the dialogue and nothing else, not even which character is speaking; however I was pleased to confirm from that the stewardess (Doe Avedon), the Korean lady (Joy Kim), and the older man with a terminal illness (Paul Fix) all went out on that dinner date they’d been discussing.