Zero Hour!

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Zero Hour!
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Directed by	Hall Bartlett
Produced by	John C. Champion Hall Bartlett
Written by	Arthur Hailey
Starring	Dana Andrews Linda Darnell
Music by	Ted Dale Arthur Hamilton
Cinematography	John F. Warren
Editing by	John C. Fuller
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	1957
Running time	81 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Zero Hour! is a 1957 movie written by Arthur Hailey that served as the basis for the much more widely known spoof Airplane!. The film was a remake of Hailey's 1956 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation play Flight into Danger. Hailey also co-wrote a book of the same name with John Castle.

The rights to the movie were purchased by the makers of Airplane!, and they were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim. The movie is not currently available in VHS however a DVD version is scheduled to be released by Warner Home Video on June 26, 2007. One of its rare public showings was on TV by Turner Classic Movies in a back-to-back showing with Airplane!