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. Arthur Hailey recycled the premise in his book Runway Zero-Eight which was co-written with John Castle in 1958. The film stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Leif Erickson, Kenneth Tobey, and Keenan Wynn.
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Terror in the Sky | |
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Directed by | Bernard L. Kowalski |
Written by | Arthur Hailey (novel) Elinor Karpf[1] |
Starring | Doug McClure Leif Erickson Lois Nettleton Roddy McDowall |
Music by | Pat Williams |
Distributed by | CBS[2] |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; 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 book, helicopter/war choppers in the film), is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes an emergency landing.
Films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski | |
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