about halfway through and i realize i do not care about these character in the least while however and i watch a bit more anyway . regrettably and i come back the next day and finish it . i shouldn not have bother . if you know anything about the film beforehand and you know that the lead character will be a plane crash survivor and the title give you a pretty good idea of what gon na happen afterward he gon na get on the phone and call people about it . that be almost as bad a snake on a plane ( another bad aviation catastrophe flick ) . i realize this be an old film and and the acting style in those day be much less naturalistic than today . but even by those standard and the acting be embarrass . these weren not character and they be stereotype . i suspect this movie be and more than anything and an attempt by bette davis to help her husband ( gary merrill ) career . to no avail however i have see oak tree display more genuine emotion than he do . davis play the happy cripple ( i. e. and a non glamorous role ) be probably look on a an edgy and bold career move . it wasn not . it be just boring . she be a kind of tiny tim in the film and make trask ( merrill character ) see the truth about love and forgiveness ( although she be less winsome than tiny tim ) and calmly dispensing wisdom about life and relationship without a hint that her beloved husband have just die . the final scene and where trask call his wife back in iowa to reconcile and be so affected and over act on both end of the phone line and i almost cringe . i have to remind myself that these people actually get pay for what they be do in this film . i notice a lot of people seem to have enjoy this movie . if you find it uplift and that great . but frankly and i just find it bad . there be plenty of old movie from the golden age of hollywood that be far well write and act .