![]() The movie opts instead to focus on the head and shoulders of each as they give their separate recollections under hypnosis, interrupted only occasionally by Dr. Scenes where Jones and Parsons get to act against each other were actually pretty enjoyable, though sadly there are only two or three after the thirty minute mark. ![]() It doesn’t make for the most interesting viewing experience, but for a TV movie from 1975 I suppose I shouldn’t be expecting much. The remainder of the movie feels almost like a documentary, with psychiatrist’s-office narration by Barney or Betty interspersed with flashbacks, existing sort of as re-enactments, to their abduction experience. Benjamin Simon (Hughes), a psychiatrist, who suggests treatment via hypnosis. The first third of its runtime shows Barney and Betty a few years after their experience, growing more and more anxious over the seeming gap in their memory. As I hinted in my opening, it follows a pretty odd structure. I don’t want to get too in the weeds talking about the source material, so I’ll just say that the Hills’ account hasn’t held up to any real scrutiny, and that we now know that the process the Hills went though constructs rather than “recovers” memories (and is now seen as a deeply unethical practice).īut I’m not here to talk about the real Hills or about “Interrupted Journey”, I’m here to talk about The UFO Incident. Fuller, who expanded on descriptions of memories given by the Hills while under hypnosis. ![]() Incident itself is based on the book “Interrupted Journey” by John G. Jones and Parsons play Barney and Betty Hill, whose account of alien abduction in 1961 was one of the first of its kind in the United States. The UFO Incident is quite the oddity: it’s a made-for-TV movie that originally aired on NBC in October of 1975 and stars two rather esteemed acting talents in James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons. Starring James Earl Jones, Estelle Parsons, and Barnard Hughes
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