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25/12/1975 History, Thriller, Drama 2h 5m
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The truth at last? What really happened to The Hindenburg?

Overview

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

  1. Robert Wise

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. George C. Scott

    Col. Franz Ritter

  2. Anne Bancroft

    Ursula

  3. William Atherton

    Boerth

  4. Roy Thinnes

    Martin Vogel

  5. Gig Young

    Edward Douglas

  6. Burgess Meredith

    Emilio Pajetta

  7. Charles Durning

    Captain Pruss

  8. Richard Dysart

    Lehman

  9. Robert Clary

    Joe Spah

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-11-19
Starts and finishes with some astonishing original footage of the engineering marvel that was the Zeppelin "Hindenburg". The middle is all historical circumspection that tries to arrive at precisely what did cause this airship to come to such a conflagrant end. George C. Scott ("Col. Ritter") and Anne Bancroft ("The Countess") lead a cast; some based on real persons, some not, as we leave Frankfurt to head for New York. Once airborne, "Ritter" becomes aware that there may be an attempt to sabotage this symbol of Nazi power by fifth columnists and so we are now in a race against time to save th...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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