Fate Is the Hunter (film)

Fate Is the Hunter
Directed byRalph Nelson
Screenplay byHarold Medford
Based onFate Is the Hunter
by Ernest K. Gann
Produced byAaron Rosenberg
StarringGlenn Ford
Suzanne Pleshette
Nancy Kwan
Rod Taylor
CinematographyMilton R. Krasner
Edited byRobert L. Simpson
Music byJerry Goldsmith
Production
company
Arcola Pictures Corp.
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • November 8, 1964 (1964-11-08)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,525,000[1]
Box office$2.2 million[2]

Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 American aviation disaster drama film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, directed by Ralph Nelson, that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor. Fate Is the Hunter also features Jane Russell (playing herself entertaining for the USO in a flashback sequence), Nehemiah Persoff, Wally Cox, and Mark Stevens. Dorothy Malone also makes an uncredited appearance. The film features an early film score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.[3]

The film's storyline concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations, 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.

  1. ^ Solomon 1989, p. 254.
  2. ^ Vagg 2010, p. 102.
  3. ^ Clemmensen, Christian. "Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) tribute." Filmtracks.com. Retrieved: April 14, 2011.