The read
Audiences rate it 32 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes31%
Audiences rate it 32 points higher than critics do.
156 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert WiseDirector
- Nelson GiddingScreenplay
- David ShireOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- George C. ScottCol. Franz Ritter
- Anne BancroftUrsula
- William AthertonBoerth
- Roy ThinnesMartin Vogel
- Gig YoungEdward Douglas
- Burgess MeredithEmilio Pajetta
- Charles DurningCaptain Pruss
- Richard DysartLehman
- Robert ClaryJoe Spah
- René AuberjonoisMajor Napier
- Peter DonatReed Channing
- Alan OppenheimerAlbert Breslau
Stills
Themes
based on true storyairshiptragic eventhistorical eventhindenburgdirigibleaviation disasterair disaster