Zero Hour! (1957)

Director
Hall Bartlett

Main cast
Dana Andrews; Linda Darnell; Sterling Hayden; Geoffrey Toone; Jerry Paris

Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller

Description
A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie. Written by Michael Brooke


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