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...