Aerial suspense and thriller with intriguing events , drama , and excessive dialogue . The riveting idea that the 1937 Hindenburg disaster might have been an act of sabotage is rather overwhelmed by star-studded-cast . Film features wisescreen and Panavision format retelling a fictionalized account about the spectacular travel of the German airship and what happened on the fateful night it exploded over on Lakehurst , New Jersey in 1937 in which a zeppelin burst into flames due to tons of hydrogen . Of 97 aboard, eight had a motive for sabotage , then our starring : George C. Scott races against time to prevent a hateful scheme a cause a catastrophe and thwart the plans of cunning blackmailers on the fateful destination . The truth at last? What really happened to The Hindenburg?. One had a plot. Of 97 aboard, eight had a motive. One had a plot. By some miracle, 62 survived. Germany's greatest chance for victory. The monster of the skies you've been hearing about on radio and T. V. The Screen Explodes... with This Summer's Action Hit! .High! - In Action! Adventure!
This intriguing film gets a magnificent creation of suspense , thriller and emotional drama including some exciting and well staged aerial images . It is an acceptable disaster movie , but major disaster results to be its own boring and tiring script . This nail-biting picture results to be a compendium of the thrilling deeds and imaginative fiction of the happenings leading up to the famous catastrophe. For a dramatic effect, a twisted sabotage was chosen as the cause, rather than the failed electricity lashing out at an impressive blow-up . It displays the Disaster Movie sub-genre style with a plot structure, including a large presentation of roles until the known final . George C. Scott plays an investigator who is aware that something is up, and has numerous suspects to investigate and interrogate , while Roy Thinnes is the typical nasty Gestapo officer who goes after him . There's brief character studio with ordinary Grand Hotel-type roles and an interesting premise , that 1937 airship disaster was an act of sabotage, but being undermined by an overlong runtime . Packing an unexciting denouement mingling newly shot material and original newsreel footage . This earned special Academy Award for its sound and visual effects. And 5 min were added to film for TV showing . Main and support are pretty well with a lot of familiar faces : Ann Bancroft , Charles Durning , Richard Dysart, Robert Clary , Peter Donat , Alan Oppenheimer , Katherine Helmond , Joanna Moore , Stephen Elliott , Jan Merlin, while Rene Auberjonois and Burguess Meredith are nice enough as a couple of cardsharps to merit more screen time .
Musical score from David Shire is highly commendable and including a catching leitmotif . Colorful and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor and Panavision by Robert Surtees , a classic cameraman expert on superproductions. Being filmed on location in Munich, Bavaria, Germany , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, and Hollywood Burbank , USA . Produced and released by Universal Pictures and professionally directed by Robert Wise who never lets the action sag , in spite of its slow-movement . Wise was a good director who made films in all kinds of genres , nowadays , some of them considered classic movies , such as : Musical : West side story , The sound of music ; SciFi: The day the Earth stood , Andromeda strain , Star Trek the motion picture ; Terror : The haunting , The body snatchers, , Audrey Rose , Curse of cat people ; Wartime : Run silent Run deep , The Desert Rats ; Historical : Helen of Troy ; Western : Tribute to a bad man ; Drama : I want to live , The Set-up , among others . Rating : 6/10 , acceptable and passable . The picture will appeal to catastrophe genre enthusiasts.
This intriguing film gets a magnificent creation of suspense , thriller and emotional drama including some exciting and well staged aerial images . It is an acceptable disaster movie , but major disaster results to be its own boring and tiring script . This nail-biting picture results to be a compendium of the thrilling deeds and imaginative fiction of the happenings leading up to the famous catastrophe. For a dramatic effect, a twisted sabotage was chosen as the cause, rather than the failed electricity lashing out at an impressive blow-up . It displays the Disaster Movie sub-genre style with a plot structure, including a large presentation of roles until the known final . George C. Scott plays an investigator who is aware that something is up, and has numerous suspects to investigate and interrogate , while Roy Thinnes is the typical nasty Gestapo officer who goes after him . There's brief character studio with ordinary Grand Hotel-type roles and an interesting premise , that 1937 airship disaster was an act of sabotage, but being undermined by an overlong runtime . Packing an unexciting denouement mingling newly shot material and original newsreel footage . This earned special Academy Award for its sound and visual effects. And 5 min were added to film for TV showing . Main and support are pretty well with a lot of familiar faces : Ann Bancroft , Charles Durning , Richard Dysart, Robert Clary , Peter Donat , Alan Oppenheimer , Katherine Helmond , Joanna Moore , Stephen Elliott , Jan Merlin, while Rene Auberjonois and Burguess Meredith are nice enough as a couple of cardsharps to merit more screen time .
Musical score from David Shire is highly commendable and including a catching leitmotif . Colorful and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor and Panavision by Robert Surtees , a classic cameraman expert on superproductions. Being filmed on location in Munich, Bavaria, Germany , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, and Hollywood Burbank , USA . Produced and released by Universal Pictures and professionally directed by Robert Wise who never lets the action sag , in spite of its slow-movement . Wise was a good director who made films in all kinds of genres , nowadays , some of them considered classic movies , such as : Musical : West side story , The sound of music ; SciFi: The day the Earth stood , Andromeda strain , Star Trek the motion picture ; Terror : The haunting , The body snatchers, , Audrey Rose , Curse of cat people ; Wartime : Run silent Run deep , The Desert Rats ; Historical : Helen of Troy ; Western : Tribute to a bad man ; Drama : I want to live , The Set-up , among others . Rating : 6/10 , acceptable and passable . The picture will appeal to catastrophe genre enthusiasts.