After a rather hesitant start of the season, "The Twilight Zone" is back to its good-old reliable self again, with this moodily mysterious tale about a ghost-airplane arriving at an airport without a single passenger, crew member or piece of luggage on board. The very experienced Federal Aviation Inspector Grant Sheckly is brought in to investigate, but there just isn't any logical or even remotely plausible explanation. Particularly the first 10-15 minutes of "The Arrival" are dazzlingly brilliant. The disbelief on the airport personnel's faces, the grotesque theories they come up with, the increasing anxiety of having to face the press, etc., is very tense and absorbing. The unraveling of the mystery is slightly less impressive, but still solid "Twilight Zone" material.
There's a scene in which lead actor Harold J. Stone walks straight towards an active airplane propeller. It's too bad that director Boris Segal, during the filming of this, didn't get a vision or forewarning epiphany of his own unfortunate fate...
There's a scene in which lead actor Harold J. Stone walks straight towards an active airplane propeller. It's too bad that director Boris Segal, during the filming of this, didn't get a vision or forewarning epiphany of his own unfortunate fate...