Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

George C. Scott
as Col. Franz Ritter

Anne Bancroft
as Ursula

William Atherton
as Boerth

Roy Thinnes
as Martin Vogel

Gig Young
as Edward Douglas

Burgess Meredith
as Emilio Pajetta

Charles Durning
as Captain Pruss

Richard Dysart
as Lehman

Robert Clary
as Joe Spah

René Auberjonois
as Major Napier
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Starts and finishes with some astonishing original footage of the engineering marvel that was the Zeppelin "Hindenburg". The middle is all historical circumspection that tries to arrive at precisely what did cause this airship to come to such a conflagrant end. George C. Scott ("Col. Ritter") and An...