Aviation cult classic movie coming on TCM 10/15th

[The Inspector]

Check your local listings for Oct 15th as TCM is showing 'Toward the Unknown' starring Bill Holden as the washed up war hero/test pilot looking for redemption, pretty standard mid 50's plot but a chance to see the X-3, YF-102, and XB-51 as well as F-94's in action.

Last edited by The Inspector on Mon Oct 08, 2012 5:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Jerry O'Neill]

Great film and some superb flying sequences! Thanks for the heads up!

Humm, October 14th. Somebody at AMC has been reading real history books for a change!!!
Jerry

[Chris Brame]

standard mid 50's plot but a chance to see the X-3, YF-102, and XB-51 as well as F-94's in action.

Don't forget the cameo appearance by the XF-92A as a crashed experimental aircraft in the beginning of the film.

[Pogmusic]

Don't see it.

Actually the movie is on TCM at 2:15 PM EDT on Monday, October 15th! Maybe the title line can be changed.

Great movie for showing mid-fifties aircraft at Edwards. Yeah the F-102 crashes and William Holden pulls Lloyd Nolan out of an XF-92!

[The Inspector]

and, on the 22nd TCM is showing 'Sky Giant' from 1938 starring Richard Dix and Harry Carey along with LOCKHEED 12's, STINSONS, arctic crashes, a great RKO 'B' airplane movie..


'fought Dix, Remember when Richard Dix tried to come in and take over?....'

[The Inspector]

Actually the movie is on TCM at 2:15 PM EDT on Monday, October 15th! Maybe the title line can be changed.

Great movie for showing mid-fifties aircraft at Edwards. Yeah the F-102 crashes and William Holden pulls Lloyd Nolan out of an XF-92!

They've altered their schedule, I'm on it like a duck on a Junebug and thanx!!

[The Inspector]

Don't see it.

you mean the movie or it being on the schedule? TCM jiggered their schedule a bit since last week.

[BK]

Website dedicated to the movie with plane serial numbers:
http://www.bellx-2.com/ttu/index.html

[JohnB]

Is Toward the Unknown the film where to test the escape capsule, they purposely eject it in flight...thus destroying an entire aircraft?
Come on, no one was ever that stupid....were they?

[Jerry O'Neill]

Is Toward the Unknown the film where to test the escape capsule, they purposely eject it in flight...thus destroying an entire aircraft?
Come on, no one was ever that stupid....were they?

I think you are thinking about "Chained Lightning" with Humphrey Bogart.
Jerry

[The Inspector]

Is Toward the Unknown the film where to test the escape capsule, they purposely eject it in flight...thus destroying an entire aircraft?
Come on, no one was ever that stupid....were they?

John,
Don't tell me you have some credability issues with the WILLIS JA-3, a jet powered prototype that had no inlets, or was it the fact that Raymond Massey was so smart that he figured out how to get a fabric covered aircraft to go supersonic?


Side bar interest point, the JA-3 was a P-39 heavily modified by Paul Mantz and Frank Tallmans outfit.

[Lynn Allen]

Actually the movie is on TCM at 2:15 PM EDT on Monday, October 15th! Maybe the title line can be changed.

Great movie for showing mid-fifties aircraft at Edwards. Yeah the F-102 crashes and William Holden pulls Lloyd Nolan out of an XF-92!

The CAF's Lloyd Nolan??

[Jerry O'Neill]

Actually the movie is on TCM at 2:15 PM EDT on Monday, October 15th! Maybe the title line can be changed.

Great movie for showing mid-fifties aircraft at Edwards. Yeah the F-102 crashes and William Holden pulls Lloyd Nolan out of an XF-92!

The CAF's Lloyd Nolan??

The actor Lloyd Nolan. (Airport, Bataan, Guadalcanal Diary etc.)

[Canso42]

thanks for the heads-up, guys. It just will fit into my schedule Monday.