Terror in the Sky

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Terror in the Sky
Directed byBernard L. Kowalski
Written byArthur Hailey (novel)
Elinor Karpf[2]
StarringDoug McClure
Leif Erickson
Lois Nettleton
Roddy McDowall
Music byPat Williams
Distributed byCBS[1]
Release date
  • September 17, 1971 (1971-09-17)
[1]
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Terror in the Sky is a 1971 television film remake of 1957's Zero Hour!, which itself was based on the 1956 television play Flight into Danger. Arthur Hailey recycled the premise in his book Runway Zero-Eight which was co-written with John Castle in 1958. The film stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Leif Erickson, Kenneth Tobey, and Keenan Wynn.

Plot[]

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree. Both pilots also eat the chicken. Passenger George Spencer, a man who has not flown since the Vietnam War (single-engine planes in the book, helicopter/war choppers in the film), is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes an emergency landing.

Cast[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Made-For-TV Movie Rankings". Variety. January 25, 1972. p. 81.
  2. ^ Deal, David (2011). Television Fright Films of the 1970s. McFarland p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7864-5514-0.

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