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Zero Hour!

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Zero Hour!	type	TVTItem
Zero Hour!	label	Zero Hour!
Zero Hour!	page	ZeroHour
Zero Hour!	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Zero Hour! is a 1957 Suspense / Disaster Movie directed by Hall Bartlett, starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and Sterling Hayden. One of the earliest examples of the "airline disaster" sub-genre, the film was adapted from the Canadian teleplay Flight Into Danger, written by former pilot Arthur Hailey, and from his novelization of same.Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot Ted Stryker (Andrews) leads an ill-fated air raid through heavy fog during the waning years of World War II, a mission which results in the near total loss of his entire squadron. Wracked with guilt, he spends the next eleven years drifting from job to job, unable to accept any position of responsibility, which eventually drives his wife Ellen (Darnell) to take their son Joey and leave him; but Stryker manages to board their cross-Canada flight just before takeoff. Meanwhile, a last-minute catering reschedule results in half the passengers getting violently ill — and both pilots as well. Turns out Stryker is the only person on board who can possibly pilot the embattled flight and save everyone, but only if he can conquer his own demons and work with his gruff former superior officer, Captain Martin Treleaven (Hayden), who communicates with Stryker from the airport via radio and tries to talk him through the process of flying the plane and safely landing it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })If any of this sounds familiar to modern audiences, it's likely because the plot of Zero Hour! was adapted, officially and nearly wholesale (including character names, back stories and even entire hunks of dialog), into the 1980 parody film Airplane!. In this film the Love Interest played by Darnell is Stryker's wife, and a passenger rather than a stewardess, and little Joey is their son. Other than that, Zero Hour! is basically Airplane! with all the jokes taken out.Arthur Hailey, writer of the original story, later wrote another plane-in-distress story, Airport, which was made into a 1970 film that started the decade's Disaster Movie craze... which Airplane! spoofed so effectively that it ended the genre, making Hailey technically both the creator and destroyer of it.No relation to the 1994 DC Comics Crisis Crossover of the same name.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Zero Hour! / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Zero Hour! / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Stryker is the only passenger on the plane who is both not ill and has any flying experience at all. Taken a step further when Ellen is brought up to handle the radio for him. This is even sillier than Airplane!, as in this film, Ellen is a passenger rather than a stewardess.
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Zero Hour! / int_1dca0b0a	type	Disaster Movie
Zero Hour! / int_1dca0b0a	comment	Disaster Movie: A plane will crash unless a washed out pilot can save everyone.
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Zero Hour! / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Zero Hour! / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The original teleplay didn't give Stryker his Dark and Troubled Past, his marriage woes nor his strained relationship with Martin Treleaven.
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Zero Hour! / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Zero Hour! / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Which, yes, eventually leads to Get A Hold Of Yourself Man
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Zero Hour! / int_4b50895	type	Taking the Kids
Zero Hour! / int_4b50895	comment	Taking the Kids: Ellen believes (understandably) that Ted's dithering and wishy-washiness makes him a bad role model for their son.
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Zero Hour! / int_522811b8	type	Falling into the Cockpit
Zero Hour! / int_522811b8	comment	Falling into the Cockpit: Stryker has to take the controls after both pilots are stricken with food poisoning.
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Zero Hour! / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Zero Hour! / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: William Conrad, in full "deadly serious" mode, recounts Ted's ill-fated World War II mission in the opening scene.
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Zero Hour! / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Zero Hour! / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Janet, the flight attendant, and her ventriloquist boyfriend.
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Zero Hour! / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Zero Hour! / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: 11 years between Ted's mission in World War II and the present day.
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Zero Hour! / int_71abd546	type	Excited Show Title!
Zero Hour! / int_71abd546	comment	Excited Show Title!: It is, properly, Zero Hour!
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Zero Hour! / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Zero Hour! / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Ted lost most of his men on a mission, and is still bearing that guilt.
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Zero Hour! / int_7c203f21	type	This Is No Time to Panic
Zero Hour! / int_7c203f21	comment	This Is No Time to Panic: Besides the inevitable Screaming Woman, one panicky idiot goes and flings open the cockpit door to reveal Stryker: "He's not a pilot!" Luckily, Dr. Baird is able to talk everyone down.
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Zero Hour! / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Zero Hour! / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Sterling Hayden as Martin Treleaven. As one reviewer opined, Robert Stack's parody character in Airplane! is "barely even an exaggeration."
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Zero Hour! / int_8390cdf1	type	Contamination Situation
Zero Hour! / int_8390cdf1	comment	Contamination Situation: Food poisoning, presumed to be due to hiring a new caterer.
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Zero Hour! / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Zero Hour! / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: As part of Stryker's Grew a Spine moment: "I may bend your precious airplane but I'll bring it down!"
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Zero Hour! / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Zero Hour! / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Ted is convinced he can't do it, both because of his trauma, and that he's not trained for this kind of plane.
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Zero Hour! / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Zero Hour! / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Martin Treleaven is introduced wooing his wife on a dinner date... in full pilot's uniform.
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Zero Hour! / int_962ffef6	type	ISO-Standard Urban Groceries
Zero Hour! / int_962ffef6	comment	ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: Ted comes home with the standard paper bag with a loaf of French bread sticking out.
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Zero Hour! / int_9d352e21	type	Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat
Zero Hour! / int_9d352e21	comment	Overly Nervous Flop Sweat: Stryker sure does get sweaty.
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Zero Hour! / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
Zero Hour! / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: It is Ted's ability, and more pertinently his willingness, to step up and take charge of the situation which convinces Ellen to stay with him.
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Zero Hour! / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Zero Hour! / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Stryker is prodded into the cockpit under the assumption that the co-pilot is ill, just to help with the radio. Then he gets up there and sees two empty chairs. "Both pilots?"
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Zero Hour! / int_b87ae3ba	type	Crash Course Landing
Zero Hour! / int_b87ae3ba	comment	Crash Course Landing: Stryker would like to point out that he flew single-engine planes during WWII; meanwhile, a commercial airplane has four engines. "It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether!"
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Zero Hour! / int_bb7dceca	type	Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
Zero Hour! / int_bb7dceca	comment	Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: Treleaven grumbles about Stryker's "lousiest landing in the history of this airport!" and then immediately offers sincere congratulations.
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Zero Hour! / int_c31dc964	type	Grew a Spine
Zero Hour! / int_c31dc964	comment	Grew a Spine: Stryker really comes into his own as he prepares to land the plane.
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Zero Hour! / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Zero Hour! / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Stryker and Treleaven hold... less than fond memories of each other.
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Zero Hour! / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
Zero Hour! / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: Joey Stryker is a Littlest Food Poisoning Patient.
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Zero Hour! / int_d429d0f6	type	Canada, Eh?
Zero Hour! / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?: Averted; although the setting and characters are Canadian, the film features none of the usual stereotypes.
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Zero Hour! / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Zero Hour! / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Unless you count food poisoning and a Dark and Troubled Past as antagonists.
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Zero Hour! / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Zero Hour! / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Treleaven bums a smoke off the airport staff, leading to a line that was used in Airplane!. ("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.")
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Zero Hour! / int_e5e1e0c0	type	Plane Awful Flight
Zero Hour! / int_e5e1e0c0	comment	Plane Awful Flight: Half the passengers on a plane flight succumb to food poisoning, including the flight crew, forcing a former fighter pilot to take the controls and land the plane.
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Zero Hour! / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
Zero Hour! / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Basically, Stryker pushed into taking over as there's no one else on the plane who can fly.
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Zero Hour! / int_f3a8ec93	type	Billions of Buttons
Zero Hour! / int_f3a8ec93	comment	Billions of Buttons: A panning shot of the instruments on the plane, yet another bit that was copied directly for Airplane!.
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Zero Hour! / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Zero Hour! / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past / My Greatest Failure: The botched air raid in WWII has left Stryker very nearly unable to function.
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	Zero Hour (Radio)	seeAlso	Zero Hour!

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