Nov. 8, 1964 - Opening today is “Fate Is the Hunter,” a black-and-white aviation disaster film directed by Ralph Nelson that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette, and Rod Taylor. The film is based on the bestselling 1961 memoir of the same name by Ernest K. Gann.
The film’s storyline concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess (Pleshette). Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations (Ford), 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.
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