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Le crash mystérieux

Original title: Fate Is the Hunter
  • 1964
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 46m
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6.8/10
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Glenn Ford and Suzanne Pleshette in Le crash mystérieux (1964)
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.
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An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

  • Director
    • Ralph Nelson
  • Writers
    • Ernest K. Gann
    • Harold Medford
  • Stars
    • Glenn Ford
    • Nancy Kwan
    • Rod Taylor
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    • Director
      • Ralph Nelson
    • Writers
      • Ernest K. Gann
      • Harold Medford
    • Stars
      • Glenn Ford
      • Nancy Kwan
      • Rod Taylor
    • 76User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Glenn Ford
    Glenn Ford
    • Sam McBane
    Nancy Kwan
    Nancy Kwan
    • Sally Fraser
    Rod Taylor
    Rod Taylor
    • Capt. Jack Savage
    Suzanne Pleshette
    Suzanne Pleshette
    • Martha Webster
    Jane Russell
    Jane Russell
    • Jane Russell
    Wally Cox
    Wally Cox
    • Ralph Bundy
    Nehemiah Persoff
    Nehemiah Persoff
    • Ben Sawyer
    Mark Stevens
    Mark Stevens
    • Mickey Doolan
    Max Showalter
    Max Showalter
    • Dan Crawford
    Constance Towers
    Constance Towers
    • Peg Burke
    Howard St. John
    Howard St. John
    • Mark Hutchins
    Robert J. Wilke
    Robert J. Wilke
    • Stillman
    • (as Robert Wilke)
    Bert Freed
    Bert Freed
    • Dillon
    Dort Clark
    Dort Clark
    • Ted Wilson
    Mary Wickes
    Mary Wickes
    • Mrs. Llewlyn
    Robert F. Simon
    Robert F. Simon
    • Proctor
    Stanley Adams
    Stanley Adams
    • Bernie
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • FBI Agent
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ralph Nelson
    • Writers
      • Ernest K. Gann
      • Harold Medford
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    L_Forster

    Excellent Movie

    A terrific movie, Glenn Ford, Rod Tayler, and Suzanne Pleshette give wonderful performances. Not only a suspenseful movie, but it also one which makes a person think. Maybe some things are just meant to be. I just wish it was available on Video or DVD.
    flarepilot

    Many times a book does not translate to a film well. BUT! (spoiler note, I use one line from the film, not critical to the story)

    First off, I am one of the rare pilots who loves this movie. I'm a 737 captain for a major airline in the USA. Also a flight instructor, an instrument instructor and multi engine instructor.

    I've read the book and am glad the book and movie are so different. IN this way I get two amazing stories, but with that special flavor expressed in the title.

    I won't describe the movie, others have done that. But if you are a pilot and don't "GET" this movie, you better take some more flying lessons.

    I mean it. If you don't like the fictional airliner, well that' s fine.

    Get over that part of it.

    Here is a movie that actually talks about a rudder power switch!

    I can also say that the cinematography is wonderful and the opening 12 minutes and last 10 minutes is the most amazing stuff I've seen. (short of reality).

    So, see this movie. And shut off the damn bell.
    7mrb1980

    Good, Intelligent 1960s Film

    This is a fine film about an airliner crash and its later repercussions. Glenn Ford brings his usual earnestness to his role as an airline executive determined to discover the cause of the crash, which killed its pilot and his good friend (Rod Taylor). Reports that Taylor had been drinking only make Ford more determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Top cast works well with an intelligent script, which unfortunately gets a little slow and talky near the middle of the movie. The flashback scenes with Ford, Taylor, Jane Russell and Wally Cox are extremely well done, and Dorothy Malone gives a fine, uncredited performance. Perfect TV fare, good for folks who like movies from the mid-1960s era.

    PS--Isn't that Joe Patridge as the First Officer at the beginning of the movie?
    Roscoe-4

    Classic "if only" movie

    One of the best "if only" this had happened, or this didn't happen the outcome would be totally different. I have seen this movie only once, and that was in 1964! It's a great old movie, with well know actors. If you ever get a chance to see it....DO !!
    8bkoganbing

    The Black Box

    Fate Is The Hunter casts Glenn Ford as an airline executive and former pilot who is investigating the crash of an airline at his airport where a former Korean war buddy Rod Taylor was the pilot. Most on the flight were killed, one of the survivors was stewardess Susanne Pleshette.

    Ford has a vested interest both professional and personal, he hired Taylor as a pilot and his judgment is called in question as well. And Taylor was a roguish sort of guy who bent the rules considerably. But Ford knew Taylor as a man cool in combat and we see Taylor after the initial crash in all sides of his character in flashback.

    The film is based on an Ernest K. Gann novel who also gave us Island In The Sky and The High And The Mighty. The film keeps the attention throughout with its documentary like approach. Ford is a man with a disagreeable task and he's praying his faith in Taylor will not be in vain.

    The airline is more interested in covering itself in case of potential lawsuits than at getting at the truth. Pilot error is the easiest explanation all around and Taylor's past doesn't help any.

    There are a couple of noteworthy supporting performances first being Dorothy Malone who was not billed oddly enough as a party girl who Taylor was involved with and dumped. It's a chip off the performance Malone gave as Marilee Hadley in Written On The Wind. Also noteworthy is Wally Cox who was a fellow crewman on Taylor and Ford's ship in Korea who provides an insight into an incident in Korea that Ford does not remember fondly.

    What does cause the crash? It's something quite trivial, but Taylor's posthumous reputation owes a debt of gratitude to Susanne Pleshette surviving the crash and to the black box recording even then, standard on commercial flights. It was kind of quaint seeing the airline investigators playing the black box recording on those old fashioned reel to reel tapes.

    For aviation fans and fans of the principal players and many others. A really good piece of work that all the cast could take pride in.

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    • Trivia
      The fictional airliner in this movie is a DC-7, substantially altered to look like a contemporary jet airliner, but not resemble any that actually existed. Because of the theme (and to avoid spoiling an excellent ending), no airline or aircraft manufacturer would have anything to do with the movie, and any resemblance to an actual aircraft would invite litigation. Curiously, there are aspects to the fake wings that are almost 30 years ahead of their time.
    • Goofs
      The aircraft used for this movie - cobbled together from a Douglas propeller airliner - would be impossibly tail heavy with tail-mounted engines. The wings are too far forward. If it managed to achieve flight, it would instantly stall and crash.
    • Quotes

      Capt. Jack Savage: When your number's up, why fight it, right? And if its not, why worry about it?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Beverly Hills: The Time Has Come Today (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      Fate Is the Hunter
      Music by Jerry Goldsmith

      Lyrics by Don Wolf

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    • Release date
      • May 12, 1965 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fate Is the Hunter
    • Filming locations
      • Marineland of the Pacific - 6610 Palos Verdes Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA(Sam meets Sally where she works)
    • Production company
      • Arcola Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $2,525,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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