Zero Hour!

Zero Hour!

1957 | 1h 25m | Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Trouble strikes when the pilot and crew of a Canadian passenger plane suddenly become ill from food poisoning. The only person on board who can save everyone is a former World War II pilot, petrified of flying again.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Hall Bartlett

CAST

Dana Andrews

Linda Darnell

Sterling Hayden

Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Geoffrey Toone

PRODUCERS

John C. Champion

WRITERS

Arthur Hailey

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Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Put Stryker On!
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Sterling Hayden (as "Treleaven") and Dana Andrews (as "Ted Stryker") are giving Lloyd Bridges and Robert Hays (in Airplane, 1980) plenty to work with in the airliner-crisis thriller Zero Hour!, 1957.
Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Crazy About Planes
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Decker (Jerry Paris!) and stewardess Janet (Peggy King) lead into Stryker (Dana Andrews) introducing Joey (Raymond Ferrell) to pilot Wilson (NFL Hall of Famer Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch) in Zero Hour!, 1957, which was famously the basis for Airplane!, 1980.
Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) That's Not Important
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Stupendous for fans of Airplane!, 1980, starting in the cabin with Dana Andrews and family, then in the cockpit with Captain Wilson (Elroy Hirsch), Geoffrey Toone (as Dr. Baird) in the Leslie Nielsen role, delivers the landmark line about fish to stewardess Janet (Peggy King) in Zero Hour!, 1957.
Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) On April 10th 1945
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That's William "Cannon" Conrad narrating as injured pilot Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews) foreshadows Airplane!, 1980, and converses with an RCAF doctor (Willis Bouchey) in Zero Hour!, 1957.
Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Picked The Wrong Week
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No mention of sniffing glue but Treleaven (Sterling Hayden), summoned from a Vancouver night club 45 minutes into the picture, makes his feelings known to flight controller Burdick (Charles Quinlivan) in the airliner-crisis drama Zero Hour!, spoofed in Airplane, 1980.

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