Zero Hour!

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Zero Hour!
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Hall Bartlett
Written by	Arthur Hailey
Produced by	John C. Champion Hall Bartlett
Starring	Dana Andrews Linda Darnell
Cinematography	John F. Warren
Edited by	John C. Fuller
Music by	Ted Dale Arthur Hamilton
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	November 13, 1957
Running time	81 min.
Country	U.S.
Language	English

Zero Hour! is a 1957 movie whose screenplay was written by Arthur Hailey, starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden, and released by Paramount Pictures. Zero Hour! served as the basis for the spoof Airplane!. Zero Hour! was a remake of Hailey's 1956 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation play Flight into Danger. Hailey also co-wrote a novel with John Castle based on the same premise, titled Flight Into Danger: Runway Zero-Eight (1958).

The rights to the movie were purchased by the makers of the 1980 parody film Airplane!, and they were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim. In later years, the film was acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on June 26, 2007.

Cast

• Dana Andrews .... Lt. Ted Stryker
• Linda Darnell .... Ellen Stryker
• Sterling Hayden .... Captain Martin Treleaven
• Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch .... Capt. Bill Wilson, Pilot
• Geoffrey Toone .... Dr. Baird
• Jerry Paris .... Tony Decker
• Peggy King .... Stewardess Janet Turner
• Charles Quinlivan .... Harry Burdick
• Patricia Tiernan .... Mrs. Joan Wilson (as Carole Eden)

External links

• Zero Hour! at IMDb
• Dialog transcript