Zero Hour!
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| Zero Hour! | |
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| Directed by | Hall Bartlett |
| Produced by | John C. Champion Hall Bartlett |
| Written by | Arthur Hailey |
| Starring | Dana Andrews Linda Darnell |
| Music by | Ted Dale Arthur Hamilton |
| Cinematography | John F. Warren |
| Editing by | John C. Fuller |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1957 |
| Running time | 81 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Zero Hour! is a 1957 movie written by Arthur Hailey that served as the basis for the much more widely known spoof Airplane!. The film was a remake of Hailey's 1956 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation play Flight into Danger. Hailey also co-wrote a book of the same name with John Castle.
The rights to the movie were purchased by the makers of Airplane!, and they were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim. The movie is not currently available in VHS however a DVD version is scheduled to be released by Warner Home Video on June 26, 2007. One of its rare public showings was on TV by Turner Classic Movies in a back-to-back showing with Airplane!
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