Zero Hour! Overview:

Zero Hour! (1957) was a Thriller/Suspense - Drama Film directed by Hall Bartlett and produced by Hall Bartlett and John C. Champion.

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Screen Capture Theatre: Zero Hour!, or Plane Crazy

By David on Jan 6, 2022 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

On Screen Capture Theatre we condense a movie into a concise, but thrilling, handful of images. Today we feature the first airplane disaster movie, "Zero Hour," from 1957. A great film tells its story solely through visuals. And I guess "Zero Hour!" does, too. Herewith we present the film in a un... Read full article


"Zero Hour!" or Halibut Not for Me

By David on Jul 8, 2013 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

A great film tells its story solely through visuals. And I guess the 1957 movie "Zero Hour!" does, too. Herewith we present the film in a unique pictorial form utilizing pictures of a visual nature designed to tell the story through images in a visual, pictorial manner that includes the use of ... Read full article


"Zero Hour!" or Halibut Not for Me

By David on Jul 8, 2013 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

A great film tells its story solely through visuals. And I guess the 1957 movie "Zero Hour!" does, too. Herewith we present the film in a unique pictorial form utilizing pictures of a visual nature designed to tell the story through images in a visual, pictorial manner that includes the use of ... Read full article


Zero Hour!(1957)

By Dawn on Jul 17, 2010 From Noir and Chick Flicks

Zero Hour!(1957). Written by Arthur Hailey. Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden. Zero Hour! was the basis for the movie Airplane! Zero Hour! was also the remake of Hailey's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation play Flight into Danger(1956). Hailey co-wrote a novel with John Castle ba... Read full article


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Quotes from

Lt. Ted Stryker: [enters the cockpit] Oh doctor, the stewardess said...
[Stryker sees the pilot and co-pilot seats empty and the plane on automatic pilot]
Lt. Ted Stryker: BOTH pilots?
Dr. Baird: Can you fly this airplane and land it?
Lt. Ted Stryker: Not a chance!


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Facts about

Actress Linda Darnell, who played Ellen Stryker, was actually married to an airline pilot in real life at the time the movie was filmed.
To guard against food poisoning FAA regulations forbid the serving of the same type meal (fish, meat or fowl) to a pilot and co-pilot.
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