Blue Yonder - Flight into the past
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blue Yonder - Flight into the past |
| Original title | The Blue Yonder |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mark Rosman |
| script | Mark Rosman |
| production |
Susan B. Landau Annette Handley Alan Shapiro |
| music | David Shire |
| camera | Hiro Narita |
| cut | Betsy Blankett Milicevic |
| occupation | |
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Blue Yonder - Flight into the past is an American television - adventure film from the year 1985 .
action
After a lost baseball game, Henry Coogan gave young Jonathan Knicks a model of the Blue Yonder , his grandfather Max Knickerbocker's airplane. Although his father doesn't like that he admires Max's dreams, he paints it blue and continues to admire it. Max's dream was once to be the first person to fly across the Atlantic . But not only that Charles Lindbergh got ahead of him for a few days, he also took a wrong route, which is why he got lost on the way and has been missing since then. Henry, who is getting worse and worse, tells Jonathan that Max once had an idea for a time machine that he would now have built. Jonathan uses it to travel to May 14, 1927, where he immediately goes to look for his grandfather's farm. He is a bit clumsy, because both the policeman Leary and Finch notice the time travel and are now looking for him too. However, Max keeps him hidden from Leary, so he has to take him to his workshop, where he tells Jonathan about his dreams and shows him the Blue Yonder . He then takes it on a final test flight and tells him that he is now ready to begin his Atlantic crossing to Paris .
But Jonathan wants to dissuade him. Max learns that Jonathan is his future grandson, who has traveled back on a time machine to prevent his death. He doesn't want to start on May 18th and take the south route, because Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris on May 20th because he took the north route. To prove this, he wants to show him his time machine. But the time machine is no longer where he thinks it is. Max didn't believe Jonathan until a tragic accident he had prophesied happened on Langley Fields . But Jonathan can then no longer be available to him because he is arrested by Leary and later interrogated with Finch at the time machine.
At night Max frees Jonathan from prison and learns where the time machine is. After seeing her, he realizes that Lindbergh will win the race across the Atlantic and that his dream of being first will fail. So he promises Jonathan that he won't fly. But the next morning he has to find out that Max is already at the airfield to start his journey. Jonathan rushes there as fast as possible and doesn't manage to stop Max in time. All he receives is Max's white lucky scarf and sees him fly away. However, Max gives him enough time to flee from Finch and Leary, who have been chasing him for a while, in order to get to his time machine in time. Back in his time, he's sad that he couldn't prevent Max's death. But in the park, near his ballpark, he finds a statue on which Max's achievement was immortalized. He almost made it to France before Lindbergh. However, the Blue Yonder was found near the French coast on May 18, 1927.
criticism
"Elaborately staged and fluently narrated entertainment film that does not sound out its theme and characters too deeply."
background
The world premiere of the film was on November 17, 1985 on the US television station Disney Channel . On February 9, 1986, the film was shown on ABC under the title Time Flyer . In Germany the film has been available on VHS since September 1987 .
Hiro Narita received a CableACE Award in the Direction of Photography and / or Lighting Direction for a Dramatic or Theatrical Special / Movie or Miniseries category.
Web links
- Blue Yonder - Flight into the past in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blue Yonder - Flight into the past in the German dubbing file
- Blue Yonder - Flight into the past in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blue Yonder - Flight into the Past in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 4, 2012
- ↑ The Blue Yonder on petercoyote.com (English), accessed 4 April 2012