This is a story of the historically tragic Hindenburg flight of 1937. George C. Scott plays a Germany spy of sorts who is called upon to monitor the activities of this flight due to letter claiming the flight was doomed. This flight was taking place during the rise of the Third Reich, and Scott was not a Nazi lover, but to keep peace in his life he accepted the mission. The visual imagery of the Zeppelin is very impressive, and I love the sound engineering of the movie each time you see the exterior or skeletal interior of the aircraft.
This story had a slow development but eventually built up to a fairly good suspense due to a hidden bomb on board the aircraft. It was a cat and mouse chase. This was not one of the greater George C. Scott films. I felt it could have been a great movie if they would have spoken in native tongue to each other and broken English to the American passengers.
The director used actual footage of the disaster at the end of the movie, mixed with handheld camera work for the fictional re-enactments. All of the disaster was shot in black and white giving it a newsreel feel to it.
I liked this movie in a Towering Inferno kind of way, but this movie could be a really good Titanic or Schindler's List film if done properly today.
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