Five Came Back

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A M Jun 9 Forgotten masterpiece See more Tracy otr H Apr 1 I’ll keep running back to this film. I love the special effects. I will take miniatures etc over c g I any day. The characters r great stereotypical but good and the suspense builds to a satisfying climax. See more 09/07/2020 This is very tight, underplayed film. At 79 minutes it is a perfect length. Every performance is excellent, but modern audience may be in for surprise seeing Lucille Ball in a dramatic part. This performance moved her from ‘B' films to ‘A' levels and deservingly so. The film was photographed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West. Viewers have to understand that this film was made only 5 or 6 years after the start of commercial air travel. See more 05/10/2015 Five Came Back was a highly successful B-grade film that helped launch Lucille Ball's career. The title describes the plot and you can pretty much guess who is coming back long before the actual decision is made. Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay and some of it does seem political, but it's a politics that is strangely quaint by today's standards. The film is worth seeing on a rainy day, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get a copy. See more 10/05/2014 Five Came Back was a low-budget black-and-white disaster film that was snappily paced and the narrative by Dalto Trumbo, Jerome Cady and Nathanael West was tight. It's based on a story by Richard Carroll. The public richly supported it at the box office. The plot has by now become all too familiar about a passenger airplane crash in hostile territory and how the cliché characters handle their misfortune, but back in the day it was still fresh. There's also the beautiful moody noirish photography of the jungle by Nicholas Musuraca that adds to the chilling atmosphere. See more 05/30/2013 What seem a rather predictable B-flick comes up with some good twists in the final 30 minutes. First impressions aren't always accurate. A joy to see the venerable C. Aubrey sharing the screen with a young & serious Lucy. Solid cast and editing. See more Read all reviews

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