The Aviator (1985)

Though he generally refuses to travel with passengers after an accident during World War I, 1920s mail pilot Christopher Reeve is forced to transport the owner of the plane’s daughter Roseanna Arquette. The passenger curse holds true when the plane crashes in a remote mountain area. I do enjoy survival films as a form of disaster story. Reeve is quite appealing and dashing as a troubled, early aviator. Arquette is often annoyingly shrill, which at least works early in the film when her character is at her most brattiest. The story itself isn’t particularly remarkable, though the mail pilot theme is unusual.