Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 film about the crash of an airliner and the subsequent investigation released by 20th Century Fox. It was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 book of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result that he asked to have his name removed from the credits. In his autobiography A Hostage to Fortune, Gann wrote, "They obliged and, as a result, I deprived myself of the TV residuals, a medium in which the film played interminably." The movie stars Glenn Ford and Nancy Kwan and includes performances by Suzanne Pleshette, Rod... Taylor, Jane Russell , Wally Cox, and also includes an unbilled appearance by Dorothy Malone. It also features an early film score by prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith. Pilot Jack Savage is suspected of drinking and causing an airliner crash that kills 53 people and leaves only a single survivor, Martha Webster , a flight attendant. The captain's wartime buddy, airline executive Sam C. McBane , is convinced of his friend's innocence and investigates doggedly.
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| Release date: | 1964 |
| Directed by: | Ralph Nelson |
| Runtime: | 106 Minutes |
| Producer: | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Editor: | Robert L. Simpson |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Adapted from: | Fate Is the Hunter |
| Genre: | Disaster, Action |