Fate Is the Hunter (film)

Conqueror of Death is an American film drama from the year 1964. The screenplay is based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann.

Action

Flight 22 of the Consolidated Airlines under Captain Jack Savage crashes after takeoff from Los Angeles. The disaster will cost 53 lives, only the stewardess Martha Webster survived the crash. Continental's flight director Sam McBane begins with the investigation of the accident. McBane finds out that Savage has reported shortly after launch via radio from a fire in the right engine. He sought permission to land, but they told him to maintain the altitude, so the air space can be freed. The following crash stunned McBane, because the thrust of the left engine would have been sufficient to keep the height. From the surviving flight attendant, who had served at the time of coffee, McBane learns that there had been a signal that the left engine had caught fire. Savage also switched off the engine. Then he tried an emergency landing on a deserted stretch of beach, but it crashed into an old pier.

McBane examined the wreck, noting that the left engine has no burn marks. Come rumors that Savage should have been drunk before the start. But McBane Savage knows yet as a pilot from the war and doubted the rumors. Sally Fraser, the beneficiary of the life insurance of the captain, believes the crash was fate. McBane decides, with Martha to repeat the flight with the same aircraft on board. When he shut down the right engine, the machine begins to stagger. Martha, who served as the first flight of coffee, comes to stumble and spill the coffee on the dashboard. Shortly after the warning light comes on, indicating that the left engine had caught fire. McBane levering out the instrument panel, noting that the liquid damage the cables and thus has raised the wrong signal. Captain Savage is rehabilitated it.

Criticism

The lexicon of the International film felt the film as " at most aptly plenty of milieu constructed and only towards the end really exciting."

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times described the film as stupid and annoying.

For Variety, however, the film is a realistic production with good performers.

Tony Mastroianni from the " Cleveland Press," described the film as melodramatic and sometimes exciting.

Awards

Milton R. Krasner 1965 in the category Best camera ( b / w) was nominated for an Oscar.

Another nomination there was screenwriter Harold Medford for the Edgar.

Background

The film is one of the few U.S. productions, which premiered in abroad took place earlier than in the U.S. itself. In Germany the film was released on 16 October 1964 in cinemas in the U.S. only on November 8.

1964 in film Ralph Nelson Aaron Rosenberg Film score Robert L. Simpson (film editor) Oceanic Airlines 37th Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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