Last October I blogged about reading Pat Frank's novel Forbidden Area, and mentioned that there was a TV adaptation written by Rod Serling. Found it, at long last! Link. (note: doesn't play on Safari, works fine on Firefox)
It's... eh. The super-genius female lead in the novel gets demoted from being a key member of the Enemy Intentions Group to merely its secretary, and finally has a dramatic meltdown in the arms of Charlton Heston. The central cause of why the B-99 bombers keep blowing up is tipped off way too early. There's some two-fisted drama in the last 20 minutes that hasn't aged well. Apart from all that, it's a decent adaptation of the fair-to-good source novel. At an hour and a quarter length, it's probably time better spent than on what's in the theaters these days.
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