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Flight crash investigator Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson) discovers that time travellers from the future are visiting the present day and stealing passengers from doomed aircraft to repopulate a future, infertile human race.
Director: Michael Anderson
Overview
Flight crash investigator Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson) discovers that time travellers from the future are visiting the present day and stealing passengers from doomed aircraft to repopulate a future, infertile human race. One of the futuristic beings decides to return to the 1989 to distract Bill from his investigation by whatever means necessary…
Originally developed as a project for Douglas Trumbull at MGM, before being taken up by British director Michael Anderson, director of sci-fi classic Logan’s Run.
Contains infrequent mild sex, violence and bad languageRelated
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