The President's Plane Is Missing

This was probably a novel and a top tier 1973 TV movie. 50 years later it doesn't hold up. It just doesn't have the punch to keep up any suspense or momentum. The film just drags and drags. It seems longer than 90 minutes.

The film has a top notch catch of movie and TV veterans. There are so many most have little to do.

I think this film tries to be a Seven Days in May or political conspiracy film but it fails on that note. Unfortunately, it also fails on a cheap exploitative suspense level as well.

It is still worth watching just for it being such a time capsule of the early 1970s culture.