busterm Review of And I Alone Survived

And I Alone Survived (1978 TV Movie)

Memorable, low-key telling of a dramatic story of survival

[8/10 · 10 November 1998]

I have remembered this television movie for 20 years. The story is told mainly through the eyes of a young woman who was the only survivor of a small-plane crash high in the peaks of the Sierras, on a trip from California to Nevada. Although she is injured, she scrambles painfully down the mountain for days, trying to reach help. Her parents, meanwhile, are trying desperately to find out where the plane is, and if anyone is alive. The ending is especially moving, with a surprising twist that has the ring of truth.