[Pete Hill]

I agree with Bristol, it is a highly emotional image.

I think I remember another forum member saying that the movie's director Roger Corman was so upset by your father's death, and the near-loss of Garrison and Stroud, that he left the film in an in-complete state. That may explain some of the untidy editing in the film.

I recently read about the production of the WW2 Pearl Harbour epic 'Tora, Tora, Tora!' in 1970. The film used five vintage B-17s for one of its aerial sequences and one day on location, the pilot of one of them, whilst on a practice flight, radioed in to say that one of his aircraft's wheels was stuck and wouldn't come down. The movie's director Elmo Williams ordered a camera crew to rush out to the runway and film the B-17 as it came in to land on one wheel. Thankfully the plane landed safely with no injuries to the crew and only minor damage to the aircraft. Williams decided to use the footage in the movie and in-corporated the stuck-wheel into the script.
I can't help wondering, what Williams would have done with the footage if the B-17 had crashed and the men on board had been injured or killed?

Another film was the original version of 'Flight of the Phoenix' with Jimmy Stewart. The movie's production crew built a flyable version of the improvised aircraft and the original script planned to show the aircraft landing when the survivors had reached safety. However when the day came to film the scene, the plane crashed and the stunt pilot was killed. Therefore in the finished film, we see the aircraft descending to land and going out of view behind a sand-dune and then we cut to the next shot of the actors walking away from the airstrip as if they had just landed.

Pete