Movie
The Hindenburg
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1975-12-25
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- History, Thriller, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- The Filmakers Group, Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- George C. Scott as Col. Franz Ritter
- Anne Bancroft as Ursula
- William Atherton as Boerth
- Roy Thinnes as Martin Vogel
- Gig Young as Edward Douglas
- Burgess Meredith as Emilio Pajetta
- Charles Durning as Captain Pruss
- Richard Dysart as Lehman
- Robert Clary as Joe Spah
- René Auberjonois as Major Napier
- Peter Donat as Reed Channing
- Alan Oppenheimer as Albert Breslau
Crew
- Robert Wise - Director
- Nelson Gidding - Screenplay
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