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Zero Hour!

Zero Hour!
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Theatrical poster
Directed by Hall Bartlett
Produced by John C. Champion
Hall Bartlett
Screenplay by Arthur Hailey
Hall Bartlett
John Champion
Story by Arthur Hailey
Starring Dana Andrews
Linda Darnell
Sterling Hayden
Narrated by William Conrad
Music by Ted Dale
Arthur Hamilton
Cinematography John F. Warren
Edited by John C. Fuller
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • November 13, 1957 (1957-11-13)
Running time
81 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $400,764.

Zero Hour! is a 1957 drama film directed by Hall Bartlett from a screenplay by Arthur Hailey, Hall Bartlett 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. The film was released by Paramount Pictures.Zero Hour! was an adaptation of Hailey's original 1956 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation teleplay Flight into Danger. Hailey also co-wrote a novel with John Castle based on the same plot titled Flight Into Danger: Runway Zero-Eight (1958).

During the closing days of the Second World War, six members of his Royal Canadian Air Force fighter squadron are killed due to a command decision made by pilot Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews). Years later, in civilian life in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a guilt-stricken Stryker goes through many jobs, and his marriage is in trouble.

Stryker finds a note at home: his wife Ellen (Linda Darnell) has taken their young son Joey and is leaving him, flying to Vancouver. He rushes to Ottawa Airport to board the same flight, Cross-Canada Air Lines Flight 714. He asks his wife for one last chance, but Ellen says that she can no longer love a man she does not respect.

The routine flight becomes deadly when stewardess Janet Turner (Peggy King) begins the meal service. Meat or fish are the options. When a number of passengers begin feeling sick, a doctor (Geoffrey Toone) aboard determines that there must have been something wrong with the fish.


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