Terror in the Sky
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| Terror in the Sky | |
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| Directed by | Bernard L. Kowalski |
| Written by | Arthur Hailey (novel) Elinor Karpf[1] |
| Starring | Doug McClure Leif Erickson Lois Nettleton Roddy McDowall |
| Music by | Pat Williams |
| Distributed by | CBS[2] |
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 - George Spencer
- Leif Erickson - Marty Treleavan
- Roddy McDowall - Dr. Baird
- Lois Nettleton - Janet Turner
- Keenan Wynn - Milton
- Kenneth Tobey - Captain Wilson
- Jack Ging - Controller
- Sam Melville - Stewart
- Leonard Stone - Harry Burdick
References
- ↑ Deal, David (2011). Television Fright Films of the 1970s. McFarland p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7864-5514-0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Made-For-TV Movie Rankings". Variety: 81. January 25, 1972.
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