Terror in the Sky

1971 American film
  • September 17, 1971 (1971-09-17)
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Running time
74 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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 by Arthur Hailey. 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 original; 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 original, 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

  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.

External links

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Films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
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Works by Arthur Hailey
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  • Strong Medicine (1986 miniseries)
  • Detective (2005 miniseries)


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