The Hindenburg (film)

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The Hindenburg (1975) is a movie based on the disaster of the German airship Hindenburg. The film was produced and directed by Robert Wise, and was written by Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson, and William Link based on the novel by Michael M. Mooney. The movie has an ensemble cast, including George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Burgess Meredith, and Charles Durning.

A highly speculative thriller, The Hindenburg portrays a conspiracy leading to the destruction of the airship. In reality, while the zeppelins were certainly used as a propaganda symbol by the Third Reich, and anti-Nazi forces might have had the motivation for sabotage, the theory of sabotage was investigated at the time and no firm evidence for such sabotage was ever put forward.

An interesting aspect of the film was its transition from black and white to technicolor and back to greyscale. The film began with a Universal Studios newsreel that gave a lighthearted view to the history of the lighter-than-air craft. Afterwards the movie began, covering the events before the bomb's explosion. After the bomb exploded, a unique animated segue was presented, taking the film back to the black and white mode appropriate to the news films taken at the scene.

The film ended with a tribute to Herbert Morrison's footage, with the memorable quotation, "Oh the Humanity!".

Cast

George C. Scott as Col. Franz Ritter
Anne Bancroft as Ursula, The Countess
William Atherton as Boerth
Roy Thinnes as Martin Vogel
Gig Young as Edward Douglas
Burgess Meredith as Emilio Pajetta
Charles Durning as Capt. Pruss
Richard A. Dysart as Capt. Lehmann
Robert Clary as Joe Spahn
Rene Auberjonois as Maj. Napier
Peter Donat as Reed Channing
Alan Oppenheimer as Albert Breslau
Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Mildred Breslau
Joanna Moore as Mrs. Channing
Stephen Elliott as Capt. Fellows
Joyce Davis as Eleanore Ritter
Colby Chester as Eliot Howell III
Michael Richardson as Rigger Neuhaus
Herbert Nelson as Dr. Hugo Eckener
William Sylvester as Luftwaffe Colonel

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