Zero Hour![]
1957, directed by Hall Bartlett
(IMDB Link) IMDB Summary: A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie..
- Dana Andrews - Lt. Ted Stryker
- Linda Darnell - Ellen Stryker
- Sterling Hayden - Capt. Martin Treleaven
- Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch - Capt. Bill Wilson
- Geoffrey Toone - Dr. Baird
- Jerry Paris - Tony Decker
- Peggy King - Stewardess Janet Turner
- Charles Quinlivan - Harry Burdick
- Patricia Tiernan - Mrs. Joan Wilson (as Carole Eden)
- Steve London - First Officer Walt Stewart
- Jo Ann Wade - Treleaven's Baby Sitter
- Ray Ferrell - Joey Stryker (as Raymond Ferrell)
- John Ashley - TV Singer
- Willis Bouchey - British Army Doctor
- Robert Stevenson - Air Traffic Controller
- Maxine Cooper - Sick Plane Passenger
- Mary Newton - Plane Passenger with Rosary Beads
- David Thursby - Whitmond, the Argo Fan
- Will Sage - Vancouver Radar Controller
- Noel Drayton - Vancouver Control Man
- Will J. White - Vancouver Policeman (as Will White)
- Fintan Meyler - Hysterical Woman
- Hope Summers - Mrs. Summers
- Larry Thor - Vancouver Radio Dispatcher
- Richard Keith - Station Manager
- Russell Thorson - Vancouver Flight Dispatcher
- Arthur Hanson - Reporter
- Roy Gordon - Frank Graham
- Woody Chambliss - Whitmond's Drinking Buddy (uncredited)
- William Conrad - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Duane Grey - Plane Passenger (uncredited)
- S. John Launer - Vancouver Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
- James Maloney - Plane Passenger (uncredited)
- William H. O'Brien - Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- Katherine Warren - Mrs. Purdy, Landlady (uncredited)
- John Zaremba - Passenger with Sick Wife (uncredited)