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“Clouds… Dark… Snow”
By Raymond Benson
This Ealing Studios thriller was a total surprise to this viewer. It’s always a joy to discover a picture from yesteryear that one hasn’t seen, and The Night My Number Came Up happens to be a solid, riveting piece of work.
The movie is based on a real incident experienced by British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, and it was adapted to the screen by R. C. Sheriff. Competently directed by Leslie Norman, Number is a taut aeronautical near-disaster flick about a small Royal Air Force plane that carries thirteen people (eight passengers and five crew) from Hong Kong to Tokyo on a harrowing journey.
One could say that the movie has much in common with an episode of The Twilight Zone due to a somewhat supernatural slant. One day at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport,...
“Clouds… Dark… Snow”
By Raymond Benson
This Ealing Studios thriller was a total surprise to this viewer. It’s always a joy to discover a picture from yesteryear that one hasn’t seen, and The Night My Number Came Up happens to be a solid, riveting piece of work.
The movie is based on a real incident experienced by British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, and it was adapted to the screen by R. C. Sheriff. Competently directed by Leslie Norman, Number is a taut aeronautical near-disaster flick about a small Royal Air Force plane that carries thirteen people (eight passengers and five crew) from Hong Kong to Tokyo on a harrowing journey.
One could say that the movie has much in common with an episode of The Twilight Zone due to a somewhat supernatural slant. One day at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport,...
- 6/9/2020
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- Cinemaretro.com
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