1967 - VALLEY OF MYSTERY

About 91 min

P: Harry Tatelman
Dir: Joseph Leytes

Pilot Wade Cochran : Richard Egan
Writer Ben Barstow :Peter Graves
Spence Atherton: Leonard Nimoy

In the Andes a jetliner crashes far away from the place the plain has lost one of it's turbines. Everybody survives the crash, and the radio only works long enough for them to find out that the search for them concentrates at the place of the lost turbine. A criminal handcuffed to an inspector manages to kill the policeman and to swap identities until children incidentally find the passports revealing his correct situation. Several different characters and living conditions get revealed and they have to find food, water and a way out of the jungle.

Spence Atherton, a lawyer, is not very helpful. He's constantly unnerving the captain asking him when they are going to find a way out or demanding answers to questions nobody can know in the present situation. Ben Barstow, a writer and explorer in search of his sister and brother in law who crashed with a plane in the same area, and Rita Brown find a young native man, being left alone to be put to death by poison of plants. They save his life and are lead to a tribe. There he finds his brother in law, who's become mentally insane, learns about his sister’s death and they meet a friendly tribe who's people rescue them from death intrigued by the mentally disturbed man. Meanwhile the radio has been repaired and the people crashed with the plain could call for help. The two get back to the area the plane had crashed and all are rescued by helicopters.