This movie is in color, was made sometime between 1960 and 1975. WW2
American soldiers are stranded in the desert. Slowly, each soldier
goes missing. The last soldier realizes that they are all dead.

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 30 Dec 2004 09:19 PST

2 possibilities I found are:
   
"Sole Survivor" (1970)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065007/
  
  
Or, a Twilight Zone episode called, "King Nine Will Not Return"...	
  
Plot summary:
  
"As had been the case with the first season's inaugural episode "Where
Is Everybody?", the second season of Twilight Zone opened with a
"solo" drama, wherein the protagonist finds himself alone in a bizarre
situation, with no memory of how he got there. In "King Nine Will Not
Return," Robert Cummings stars as Army Air Force captain James Embry,
who awakens to find himself stumbling through the desert, near the
wreckage of a WWII bomber. Laboriously putting the pieces together,
Embry desperately searches for his fellow crew members, who seemingly
appear and disappear right before his eyes. Inspired by the recent
disovery of the wreckage of the American bomber Lady Be Good in the
Libyan Desert, "King Nine Will Not Return" was written by Rod Serling
and first aired September 30, 1960. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide"
  
  
....Is it one of these...?

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 30 Dec 2004 10:10 PST

Is it The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ?
http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/flight.shtml

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Clarification of Question by sandyshoozsc-ga on 30 Dec 2004 11:34 PST

No, not "Sole Survivor", though that's a really good one.

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Clarification of Question by sandyshoozsc-ga on 30 Dec 2004 11:36 PST

Not "Flight of the Phoenix", either. This is NOT an action movie. It's
all about the relationships of the crew members and their slow
realization that they're all dead.

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Clarification of Question by sandyshoozsc-ga on 30 Dec 2004 11:38 PST

The Twilight Zone episode sounds like the closest description. Not sure, though.

Is the movie 'Catch 22'?

There is a lengthy discussion of a similar movie here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-20660,00.html

Thank you, pinkfreud and jackburton!! After reading your comments and
the comments supplied through the hyperlink you provided, I conclude
that it MUST be "Sole Survivor". I'm going to order the DVD from this
site: http://www.montrealfood.com/dvds.html
and find out for sure.

There was a Liberator named "Lady Be Good" that crashed in the desert
in WW2 which was a mystery?

I think the show you are talking about came on Amazing Stories TV show
with Kevin Costner as the Captain. The title of the story was "The
Mission", it was episode # 1.5 and aired November, 1985.
So save your money on sole survivor.

Jack E.

My mother just asked me the same - or a very similar - question as
sandyshooz.  She was thinking that one of the actors in the movie may
have been Alejandro Ray and that the movie was made in the 1950s or
possibly early 60s.  She said it takes place during WWII, 4 or 5 men
are in the desert trying to figure out how to fix their plane, and 3/4
of the way through they all realize they're dead.  I can't find this
movie listed with Alejandro Ray and she's pretty sure it's NOT Sole
Survivor - she said there's no way William Shatner was in it and it's
not from as recent as 1970.  If anyone as any other ideas, I'd love to
know them!  Thanks!

The film is 'sole survivor', made for TV by cinema cente 100, first
aired January 1970. The film opens around the ghostly wreckage of a
B-25 bomber, but though the wreck is ancient, the 5 of the 6 crew are
still around it, playing endless innings of baseball until they are
rescued. As the film proceeds, it becomes evident that they are indeed
ghosts, and 17 years after their crash, they are doomed to stay with
the wreck of their aircraft, until their bodies are recovered and
their souls can rest.
Meanwhile, the aircraft is overflown finally, and an investigation
team sent out, bringing with them their former navigator, now a
General, who bailed out over the med and left them to their fate. He
denies desertion, claiming the entire crew bailed out over water, but
one of the investigators, Devlin, played by Vince Edwards, does not
believe him. With rigorous questioning, alcohol and eventually the
sight of the ghosts accusing him of causing their deaths, the General
drives out into the desert, locating the crew's true bailout site.
The final scenes of the film are most harrowing, with 4 of the five
sets of remains being discovered in the desert. As this happens, each
of the ghosts vanishes from the crash site - except one. The flight
sergeant, Tony, is left alone at the plane, doomed to spend eternity
there alone unless his remains are recovered. Meanwhile, Devlin has
read the pilots log, which tells him that Tony had tried to get back
to the plane, and he concludes that perhaps his remains may be found
there. He sets off back to the crash site. Does he find Tony's
remains, so that his spirit may rest?
We will never know.

I first saw this film 20 years ago, when I was at school. For years I
could never find out it's name, and it has never officially been
released on VHS or DVD, though bootleg copies are available on e-bay!
Even with mediocre picture quality, it was still really worth seeing
again.