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Zero Hour! (1957)

Zero Hour! poster
Directed by
Hall Bartlett
Genre
disaster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 21m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 54 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A commercial flight faces a crisis when the pilots fall ill. A former pilot must overcome his past to land the plane safely.

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What happens

Zero Hour! is a 1957 American disaster film directed by Hall Bartlett from a screenplay by Bartlett, Arthur Hailey, and John Champion. It stars Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden and features Peggy King, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Geoffrey Toone, and Jerry Paris in supporting roles. It was released by Paramount Pictures. Zero Hour! was a remake of the Canadian television play Flight into Danger, and was the basis for the 1980 parody film Airplane!. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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