Fate is the Hunter (1964)

Original title

Fate Is the Hunter

Directed by

Ralph Nelson

Genre

drama film, disaster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A commercial airliner crashes, killing everyone except a stewardess. An airline executive refuses to believe the pilot was at fault, so he digs into the crash victims' lives and the technical details to find the real cause.

tenseinvestigativegrittysuspensefulserioussomberdetailedprobing

What happens

Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 American aviation disaster drama film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, directed by Ralph Nelson, that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor. Fate Is the Hunter also features Jane Russell (playing herself entertaining for the USO in a flashback sequence), Nehemiah Persoff, Wally Cox, and Mark Stevens. Dorothy Malone also makes an uncredited appearance. The film features an early film score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. The film's storyline concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline's Director of Flight Operations, himself a pilot, refuses to accept that conclusion and demands that the inquiry probe deeper into all the circumstances that contributed to the disaster. The film explores the lives of passengers and crew as well as the technical operations of aircraft, the process of investigation, and the pressures brought to bear by relentless news media and industry politics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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