A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
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Title: The Hindenburg (1975)
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Cast
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Colonel Franz Ritter
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| Anne Bancroft | ... |
Countess Ursula von Reugen
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Karl Boerth
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Martin Vogel
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Edward Douglas
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| Burgess Meredith | ... |
Emilio Pajetta
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| Richard Dysart | ... |
Captain Ernst Lehman
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Joseph Spah
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Major Napier
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Reed Channing
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Albert Breslau
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Mrs. Mildred Breslau
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This film is a compendium of the facts and fiction of the events leading up to the disaster. For dramatic effect, Sabotage was chosen as the cause, rather than electricity lashing out at a couple of tons of hydrogen. Written by Charles Holland <[email protected]>
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Of 97 aboard, eight had a motive for sabotage. One had a plot. See more »Certificate:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 December 1975 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Ursula, The Countess: [Laying her own hand down] You'd be looking for a fig leaf. Straight flush!
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Music by David Shire
Lyric by Ed Kleban (as Edward Kleban)
Performed by Peter Donat (uncredited), Robert Clary (uncredited)
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The film takes place from April 17 to May 7, 1937. See more »Goofs
The incident depicting the Hindenburg's crew repairing the tear in the Zeppelin's cover as it drifts lower and lower over the Atlantic is factual; however, the event occurred on the Graf Zeppelin, not the Hindenburg. See more »Quotes
Emilio Pajetta: [Playing cards with the Countess, laying his hand down] Full house! Sorry it's not strip poker, eh, Countess?Ursula, The Countess: [Laying her own hand down] You'd be looking for a fig leaf. Straight flush!
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Crazy Credits
The film opens with the 1936 Universal logo followed by a newsreel prior to the credits. See more »Soundtracks
There's a Lot To Be Said for the FuehrerMusic by David Shire
Lyric by Ed Kleban (as Edward Kleban)
Performed by Peter Donat (uncredited), Robert Clary (uncredited)
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The Hindenburg disaster didn't last more than 3 minutes or so; then, if you want to make a movie with that subject, how do you complete the rest of the time a film is supposed to last? Not an easy task.
Robert Wise puts his best in trying but "Hindenburg" doesn't rise beyond a just standard disaster film. Some good sequences of the ship in the air and good performances from a reliable cast are not enough to raise such level. The plot, sort of interesting with the sabotage focus, is not great either.
Finally, the airship's destruction scenes mixed up with real footage is not bad, but you always wonder if including real shooting (that most of us have seen before), doesn't appear as a sort of cheating the easy way when it comes to movies about real facts; this is not a documentary film and I would have liked to see special effects on the crash we all knew was coming.
Robert Wise was indeed one of the most recognized directors in films and gave as such good products in different genres as "The Sound of Music", "Helen of Troy" or "The Day the Earth Stood Still" just to name a few. But "Hindemburg" -though watchable- is not among his best works and it didn't fulfill my expectations; not with Robert Wise in the direction.