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Zero Hour!( 1957)

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SUSPENSE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER FELT BEFORE!

Overview

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Dana Andrews

      Lt. Ted Stryker

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      Linda Darnell

      Ellen Stryker

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      Sterling Hayden

      Captain Martin Treleaven

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      Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

      Capt. Bill Wilson

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      Geoffrey Toone

      Dr. Baird

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      Jerry Paris

      Tony Decker

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      Peggy King

      Stewardess Janet Turner

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      Patricia Tiernan

      Mrs. Joan Wilson

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      Charles Quinlivan

      Harry Burdick

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      Steve London

      First Officer Walt Stewart

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      Jo Ann Wade

      Treleaven's Baby Sitter

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      Ray Ferrell

      Joey Stryker

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      John Ashley

      TV Singer

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      Willis Bouchey

      RCAF Doctor

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      Maxine Cooper

      Sick Plane Passenger

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      David Thursby

      Whitmond

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      Noel Drayton

      Vancouver Control Man

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      Fintan Meyler

      Hysterical Woman

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      Larry Thor

      Vancouver Radio Dispatcher

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      Russell Thorson

      Vancouver Flight Dispatcher

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      Robert Stevenson

      Calgary Operator

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      Mary Newton

      Plane Passenger with Rosary Beads

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      Will Sage

      Vancouver Radar Controller

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      Hope Summers

      Older Woman

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      Will J. White

      Vancouver Policeman

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      Richard Keith

      Calgary Station Manager

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      Arthur Hanson

      Toer Operator

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      Roy Gordon

      Frank Graham

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      Woody Chambliss

      Reporter (uncredited)

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      William Conrad

      Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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      Fred Fisher

      Plane Passenger (uncredited)

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      Rudy Germane

      Plane Passenger (uncredited)

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      James Gonzalez

      Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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      Herschel Graham

      Editor (uncredited)

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      Duane Grey

      Plane Passenger (uncredited)

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      S. John Launer

      Vancouver Switchboard Operator (uncredited)

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      James Maloney

      Plane Passenger (uncredited)

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      William H. O'Brien

      Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

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      Monty O'Grady

      Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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      Katherine Warren

      Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)

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      John Zaremba

      Passenger with Sick Wife (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

    7.5
    Written by John Chard on Mon Dec 29 2014
    Tension and Terror in the Skies! Famously parodied as Airplane in 1980, it gets forgotten just what a rollicking good thriller Zero Hour! is. Dana Andrews is the airman scarred by an incident during the war who has to battle his demons when the crew and passengers of the jumbo jet he is aboard fall victim to food poisoning. Sterling Hayden is down on the ground smoking loads of ciggies and having no faith in trying to talk Andrews down safely. One of the first disaster aeroplane movies, it follows what we now regard as the staples of the genre. Troubled protagonist, family strife, calm ch...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • canada
    • airplane
    • airport
    • disaster
    • food poisoning
    • doctor
    • crash landing