Zero Hour! (1957)

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

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.

tenseurgentsuspensefulclaustrophobicfast-pacedseriousgrim

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)

Trailer

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