
Zero Hour!(1957)
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.


“Why do you want to kill me?”
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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Richard Attenborough
Ernest Tilley

Stanley Baker
Capt. Bardow

Harry Secombe
Binky Meadows

Hermione Baddeley
Mrs. Satterly

George Rose
James Burlington Brock

Mai Zetterling
Carol Tilley

Diane Cilento
Angelica Como

Virginia Maskell
Pam Leyton

Elizabeth Sellars
Inez Barrington

David Kossoff
Dr. Bergstein
Jet Storm is a thriller film released in 1959 exploring themes of airplane, hit-and-run. Directed by Cy Endfield, it stars Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Harry Secombe. Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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