The Hindenburg
The truth at last? What really happened to The Hindenburg?
1975 | 125m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Robert Wise |
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| Writer: | Nelson Gidding, Michael M. Mooney |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 25, 1975 |
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| Director: | Robert Wise |
| Writer: | Nelson Gidding, Michael M. Mooney |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller, History |
| Keywords | airship, disaster, dirigible |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures, The Filmakers Group |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $15,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| George C. Scott | Col. Franz Ritter |
| Anne Bancroft | Ursula |
| William Atherton | Boerth |
| Roy Thinnes | Martin Vogel |
| Gig Young | Edward Douglas |
| Burgess Meredith | Emilio Pajetta |
| Charles Durning | Captain Pruss |
| Richard Dysart | Lehman |
| Robert Clary | Joe Spah |
| René Auberjonois | Major Napier |
| Peter Donat | Reed Channing |
| Alan Oppenheimer | Albert Breslau |
| Katherine Helmond | Mrs. Mildred Breslau |
| Joanna Moore | Mrs. Channing |
| Stephen Elliott | Captain Fellows |
| Joe Di Reda | Schulz |
| Jan Merlin | Speck |
| Betsy Jones-Moreland | Stewardess Imhoff |
| Curt Lowens | Elevator Man Felber |
| Kip Niven | Lt. Truscott |
| Scott Walker | Gestapo Major |
| Val Bisoglio | Lt. Lombardi |
| Simon Scott | Luftwaffe General |
| William Sylvester | Luftwaffe Colonel |
| Joe Turkel | Detective Moore |
| Sandy Ward | Detective Grunberger |
| Joyce Davis | Eleanore Ritter |
| Jean Rasey | Valerie Breslau |
| Ted Gehring | Knorr |
| Lisa Pera | Freda Halle |
| Peter Canon | Ludecke |
| Charles Macaulay | Hirsch |
| Rex Holman | Dimmler |
| Colby Chester | Eliot Howell III |
| Teno Pollick | Frankel |
| Michael Richardson | Rigger Neuhaus |
| Herbert Nelson | Dr. Eckener |
| Greg Mullavey | Morrison |
| David Mauro | Goebbels |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Wise | Director |
| Richard Levinson | Screenstory |
| David Shire | Original Music Composer |
| Edward C. Carfagno | Production Design |
| Don Sharpless | Sound |
| Johnny Borgese | Special Effects |
| William Link | Screenstory |
| Robert Surtees | Director of Photography |
| Frank R. McKelvy | Set Decoration |
| Leonard Peterson | Sound |
| Albert Whitlock | Visual Effects |
| Nelson Gidding | Screenplay |
| Donn Cambern | Editor |
| Michael M. Mooney | Book |
| Dorothy Jeakins | Costume Design |
| John Daheim | Stunt Coordinator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Robert Wise | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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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 An ... ne 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 the passengers and crew from this fiery fate... It is a pretty run-of-the-mill thriller; with Bancroft injecting more than a little class to keep the otherwise rather pedestrian plot from crashing far earlier than the ship did. The SFX are actually not too bad, but the dialogue and pace of the whole thing just leave you a little bit cold....