Nonureva Really Surprised!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

hgiersbe It seems like there is always someone who has to come along and tell us how this or that could not happen. For example, a pilot setting a cup of coffee on an instrument panel during takeoff. Oh come on! What would we, the mindless minions do without the superior intellect of reviewers like this to tell us what we actually already know? Please spare boring us with your pseudo-intelligence people.Another thing I'd like to see is reviewers that would stop retelling the story line. Come on people... we know the story. If that is all you have to offer, please sit down and hush. Can't you look deeper into the art and give us a real nugget? Some reviews were very good. I especially liked the one which introduced us to the concept of multivariate statistics. I did a little reading on that. This movie played on that concept quite a bit. I could be wrong but it seems to me that one way to explain it is using rogue waves as an example. A little wave here and there is nothing and a boat could easily handle them but at some point all the little waves could come together and add up to a disaster.I got this movie for two reasons: I like Glenn Ford and I like airplanes. Perhaps this movie would make a good object lesson for an acting school somewhere. There were parts of Ford's performance that were great and it did not register that the man was acting. In other parts it seemed obvious he was posing for the camera. I'm thinking about it now and I think Ford would have been a great actor to play Harry Bosch in one of Michael Connelly's novels. Ford's mood and noir might go together well to make a Bosch. I've read a little about Ford and he sounded like a stand-up guy. I would think he might feel embarrassed in his profession by people today like Charles Sheen. Sheen would be a good object lesson for anyone thinking about taking drugs for the first time (or second, or third, etc) For you aviation buffs out there trying to reverse engineer the plane in the movie... I read on one website that the movie producers very deliberately made up some plane that looked like nothing else that existed. They did not want to have to deal with possible lawsuits so to those of you who are trying to impress us with your aviation knowledge... stop boring us. Go work for Airbus if you're so smart.Taylor and Pleshette played together in "The Birds." I forgot that until I saw the credit material at the end. Kwan gave me just enough that I'd like to see other movies she has been in. Maybe Mark Stevens (Mickey) as well. I think the movie did a good job in the aspect of character development. In the end I missed Jack Savage and wanted to meet "his friends" at the closing credits.

blanche-2 Glenn Ford stars in "Fate is the Hunter," a 1964 film directed by Ralph Nelson. The film also stars Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Nancy Kwan, Wally Cox, Nehemiah Persoff, Mark Stevens, Constance Towers, and Max Showalter.Ford is Sam McBane, who is called in to determine the cause of a plane crash; a flight attendant, Martha Webster (Pleshette) is the sole survivor of the flight, piloted by Jack Savage (Rod Taylor). The airline is content to call the cause pilot error, but Ford refuses to accept that. He talks to Savage's friends, the women in his life, and finally actually reconstructs the flight in order to find the answer.Ford shows more emotion than usual and gives a strong performance - he actually dominates the film. The other characters have smaller roles. Jane Russell plays herself, and is all glamor as she sings "No Love, No Nothing'"; Wally Cox has a nice role, as does Mark Stevens, who plays an alcoholic friend of Savage's. Pleshette is excellent as the survivor.Good cast, good direction, and you, too, will wonder what actually caused this crash. Was it, as Nancy Kwan, who plays Savage's girlfriend says, fate? A perfect storm? Or something else? Engrossing.

bkoganbing Fate Is The Hunter casts Glenn Ford as an airline executive and former pilot who is investigating the crash of an airline at his airport where a former Korean war buddy Rod Taylor was the pilot. Most on the flight were killed, one of the survivors was stewardess Susanne Pleshette.Ford has a vested interest both professional and personal, he hired Taylor as a pilot and his judgment is called in question as well. And Taylor was a roguish sort of guy who bent the rules considerably. But Ford knew Taylor as a man cool in combat and we see Taylor after the initial crash in all sides of his character in flashback.The film is based on an Ernest K. Gann novel who also gave us Island In The Sky and The High And The Mighty. The film keeps the attention throughout with its documentary like approach. Ford is a man with a disagreeable task and he's praying his faith in Taylor will not be in vain.The airline is more interested in covering itself in case of potential lawsuits than at getting at the truth. Pilot error is the easiest explanation all around and Taylor's past doesn't help any.There are a couple of noteworthy supporting performances first being Dorothy Malone who was not billed oddly enough as a party girl who Taylor was involved with and dumped. It's a chip off the performance Malone gave as Marilee Hadley in Written On The Wind. Also noteworthy is Wally Cox who was a fellow crewman on Taylor and Ford's ship in Korea who provides an insight into an incident in Korea that Ford does not remember fondly.What does cause the crash? It's something quite trivial, but Taylor's posthumous reputation owes a debt of gratitude to Susanne Pleshette surviving the crash and to the black box recording even then, standard on commercial flights. It was kind of quaint seeing the airline investigators playing the black box recording on those old fashioned reel to reel tapes.For aviation fans and fans of the principal players and many others. A really good piece of work that all the cast could take pride in.

cherimerritt This movie is one of my all-time favorites that I'm happy to share tonight with my movie-buff husband who has never seen it. (I'll bet Tony DiNozzo would remember it, though.) I've been trying to remember the title for ages (couldn't recall Rod Taylor's last name to look it up online. Getting senile I guess.)I agree with Roscoe-4. "It illustrates the many zany and unusual things that can happen to change our lives forever." The actual cause of this plane crash has stuck with me since I first saw the film over 30 years ago on TV. Many times I have caught myself in the midst of a possible negative chain-of-events and changed something I was doing because of this movie (especially if there was a cup of coffee involved in what I was doing). It also probably lead to my interest in Multivariate Statistics (quantification of the phenomenon of multiple variables leading to a single outcome.)Personally, I think everyone should see this film. At least it tells a person to keep looking deeper for causes instead of assuming that "what you think is accurate" is also worth believing just because "it makes sense" to you. "It makes sense" should never be enough by itself to lead us all the way to a conclusion.