Fate Is the Hunter

1964

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / War

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68%
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 2135 2.1K

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Plot summary

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Director

Ralph Nelson Photo
Ralph Nelson

Top cast

Ralph Thomas Photo
Ralph Thomas as News Reporter
Robert Adler Photo
Robert Adler as FBI Agent
Harold Goodwin Photo
Harold Goodwin as Art Baldwin
Kem Dibbs Photo
Kem Dibbs as FBI Agent
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971.16 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 1
1.76 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

When an airline tragedy kills fifty-seven people, it

When an airline tragedy kills fifty-seven people, it falls to investigator "McBane" (Glenn Ford) to get to the bottom of things. He has precious little to go on save for a report from the pilot claiming an engine fire before silence then the plane hit the ground. One of the survivors, the stewardess "Sally" (Nancy Kwan) has slightly conflicting information about the crash so "McBane" assembles the wreckage and he can't make either story work - something's not right! The absence of any clear technical fault suggests to all the it's his wartime friend "Savage" (Rod Taylor) who was at fault - but he's not buying that. In an effort to clear the man and get to the truth, he puts his own reputation on the line and makes quite a few unsavoury discoveries along the way before he concludes another flight might be the only solution. Ford is quite good here - there's a decent one-two at the inquiry with Bert Freed's opposing counsel "Dillon" but for a movie about planes, we have remarkably little action going on. A bit of simulation now and again, but otherwise this is a rather dry story that unfolds in a pretty pedestrian fashion, with loads of chat and not so much substance to the plot. The pretty wooden Taylor doesn't really feature very often and by the conclusion, we were on a flightpath of inevitability that really underwhelmed.
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Reviewed by mrb1980 7 / 10

Good, Intelligent 1960s Film

This is a fine film about an airliner crash and its later repercussions. Glenn Ford brings his usual earnestness to his role as an airline executive determined to discover the cause of the crash, which killed its pilot and his good friend (Rod Taylor). Reports that Taylor had been drinking only make Ford more determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Top cast works well with an intelligent script, which unfortunately gets a little slow and talky near the middle of the movie. The flashback scenes with Ford, Taylor, Jane Russell and Wally Cox are extremely well done, and Dorothy Malone gives a fine, uncredited performance. Perfect TV fare, good for folks who like movies from the mid-1960s era.

PS--Isn't that Joe Patridge as the First Officer at the beginning of the movie?

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