Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
November 8, 1964Release Date
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
November 8, 1964Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Glenn Ford
Sam McBane
Nancy Kwan
Sally Fraser
Rod Taylor
Captain Jack Savage
Suzanne Pleshette
Martha Webster
Jane Russell
Self
Wally Cox
Ralph Bundy
Nehemiah Persoff
Ben Sawyer
Mark Stevens
Mickey Doolan
Max Showalter
Dan Crawford
Constance Towers
Peg Burke
Howard St. John
Mark Hutchins
Robert J. Wilke
Stillman
Bert Freed
Dillon
Dort Clark
Ted Wilson
Mary Wickes
Mrs. Llewlyn
Robert F. Simon
Proctor
Stanley Adams
Bernie (uncredited)
Robert Adler
FBI Agent (uncredited)
Don Ames
Party Guest (uncredited)
François André
Technician (uncredited)
Al Bain
Inquiry Board Spectator (uncredited)
Evadne Baker
Secretary (uncredited)
Tony Barr
Coordinator (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
Inquiry Board Spectator (uncredited)
David Bedell
Technician (uncredited)
Jim Boles
Airline Passenger (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
Party Guest (uncredited)
Rusty Burrell
News Reporter (uncredited)
Marianna Case
D'Arcy (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
Soldier (uncredited)
Booth Colman
Technician (uncredited)
Paul Cristo
Party Guest (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Inquiry Board Spectator (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Board Member (uncredited)
Kem Dibbs
FBI Agent (uncredited)
George Dockstader
Policeman (uncredited)
Bob Duggan
Reporter (uncredited)
Minta Durfee
Airline Passenger (uncredited)
Kort Falkenberg
Air Traffic Controller (uncredited)
George Ford
Loadmaster (uncredited)
Peter Ford
Attendant (uncredited)
James Gonzalez
Airline Employee (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Art Baldwin (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Inspector (uncredited)
Pitt Herbert
Man (uncredited)
George Holmes
Board Member (uncredited)
Joseph Hoover
Newsman (uncredited)
John Hubbard
Al Robbins (uncredited)
Charles Irving
Inquiry Board Chairman (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Inspector (uncredited)
Morgan Justin
TV Camera Crewman (uncredited)
Rusty Lane
Supervisor (uncredited)
John Lawrence
Priest (uncredited)
Paul Lukather
News Reporter (uncredited)
Dorothy Malone
Lisa Bond (uncredited)
William Meader
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Laurie Mitchell
Bar Hostess (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
Party Guest (uncredited)
Paulene Myers
Mother (uncredited)
Ron Nyman
Bob (uncredited)
Joe Patridge
First Officer Murray (uncredited)
Charles Perry
Inspector (uncredited)
Paul Power
Reporter (uncredited)
Anthony Redondo
Party Guest (uncredited)
Marshall Reed
News Reporter (uncredited)
Tony Regan
Party Guest (uncredited)
Edward Rickard
Party Guest (uncredited)
Christopher Riordan
Soldier in Audience (uncredited)
Clark Ross
Airline Passenger (uncredited)
Jerry Rush
Reporter (uncredited)
Mark Russell
Soldier (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Airline Employee (uncredited)
Joe Scott
Controller (uncredited)
James Secrest
Orderly (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Airline Passenger (uncredited)
John Stevens
News Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Swoger
Airport Employee (uncredited)
Hal Taggart
Doctor (uncredited)
Ralph Thomas
News Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Trinka
WWII Navigator (uncredited)
Blaine Turner
Inquiry Board Spectator (uncredited)
Richard Walsh
Radio Newsman (uncredited)
Arch Whiting
Party Guest (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Inquiry Board Spectator (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson
Director
Ernest K. Gann
Novel
Harold Medford
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 8, 1964
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 46m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 American aviation disaster drama film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, directed by Ralph Nelson, that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor. Fate Is the Hunter also features Jane Russell (playing herself entertaining for the USO in a flashback sequence), Nehemiah Persoff, Wally Cox, and Mark Stevens. Dorothy Malone also makes an uncredited appearance. The film features an early film score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.
The film's storyline concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations, himself a pilot, refuses to accept that conclusion and demands that the inquiry probe deeper into all the circumstances that contributed to the disaster. The film explores the lives of passengers and crew as well as the technical operations of aircraft, the process of investigation, and the pressures brought to bear by relentless news media and industry politics.