The Hindenburg

12/25/19752h 5m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The truth at last? What really happened to The Hindenburg? ~

Overview:

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

Director:

Robert Wise

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$15,000,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

based on true story
airship
tragic event
historical event
hindenburg
dirigible
aviation disaster
air disaster

Cast

George C. Scott

~ as ~

Col. Franz Ritter

Anne Bancroft

~ as ~

Ursula

William Atherton

~ as ~

Boerth

Roy Thinnes

~ as ~

Martin Vogel

Gig Young

~ as ~

Edward Douglas

Burgess Meredith

~ as ~

Emilio Pajetta

Charles Durning

~ as ~

Captain Pruss

Richard Dysart

~ as ~

Lehman

Robert Clary

~ as ~

Joe Spah

René Auberjonois

~ as ~

Major Napier

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
Starts and finishes with some astonishing original footage of the engineering marvel that was the Zeppelin "Hindenburg". The middle is all historical circumspection that tries to arrive at precisely what did cause this airship to come to such a conflagrant end. George C. Scott ("Col. Ritter") and Anne Bancroft ("The Countess") lead a cast; some based on real persons, some not, as we leave Frankfurt to head for New York. Once airborne, "Ritter" becomes aware that there may be an attempt to sabotage this symbol of Nazi power by fifth columnists and so we are now in a race against time to save the passengers and crew from this fiery fate... It is a pretty run-of-the-mill thriller; with Bancroft injecting more than a little class to keep the otherwise rather pedestrian plot from crashing far earlier than the ship did. The SFX are actually not too bad, but the dialogue and pace of the whole thing just leave you a little bit cold....