Terror in the Sky
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Directed by | Bernard L. Kowalski |
Written by | Arthur Hailey (novel) Elinor Karpf[2] |
Starring | Doug McClure Leif Erickson Lois Nettleton Roddy McDowall |
Music by | Pat Williams |
Distributed by | CBS[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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[]
- Doug McClure as George Spencer
- Leif Erickson as Marty Treleavan
- Roddy McDowall as Dr. Baird
- Lois Nettleton as Janet Turner
- Keenan Wynn as Milton
- Kenneth Tobey as Captain Wilson
- Jack Ging as The Controller
- Sam Melville as Stewart
- Leonard Stone as Harry Burdick
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External links[]
- 1971 television films
- English-language films
- 1971 films
- American aviation films
- American films
- American disaster films
- CBS network films
- Films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
- Films set on airplanes
- Films about aviation accidents or incidents
- Poisons
- Films based on works by Arthur Hailey
- American television film stubs