Yes, there's certainly are some bizarre twists in this very early TV movie (the first apparently for ABC), a few details that in retrospect makes the viewer perplexed by how unrealistic some of it was. A group of blind people survive a plane crash but all sighted people are killed. They must make it out of the mountains, surrounded by hungry wolves, and some of the individual characters have issues that stand in the way of their chance of survival.
There's the nasty Milton Berle, a self-centered old man who doesn't care if anybody else survives, as long as he gets out of there. Everything he does seems to be for his own benefit, so he is the one person to stand in the way of their unity. Then there is young wife Lesley Ann Warren, about to give birth to a baby, and she is destined to slow their way out down, through no fault of her own.
The beautiful Dina Merrill has a heart of gold as a truly sweet lady who tries to encourage everybody along the way even though at times, little accidents cause her and others to be forced to stop. They managed to find a train trestle coming out of the mountains, but not every path on the trestle leads to safety.
So this has plenty of intrigue, as well a surprises and a miracle concerning its most reprehensible character. But being a triumph of the human spirit, this is gripping in many ways even though the script could have taken a few different paths to be more realistic.
There's the nasty Milton Berle, a self-centered old man who doesn't care if anybody else survives, as long as he gets out of there. Everything he does seems to be for his own benefit, so he is the one person to stand in the way of their unity. Then there is young wife Lesley Ann Warren, about to give birth to a baby, and she is destined to slow their way out down, through no fault of her own.
The beautiful Dina Merrill has a heart of gold as a truly sweet lady who tries to encourage everybody along the way even though at times, little accidents cause her and others to be forced to stop. They managed to find a train trestle coming out of the mountains, but not every path on the trestle leads to safety.
So this has plenty of intrigue, as well a surprises and a miracle concerning its most reprehensible character. But being a triumph of the human spirit, this is gripping in many ways even though the script could have taken a few different paths to be more realistic.