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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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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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Disaster Movie | |
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Disaster Movie: A plane will crash unless a washed out pilot can save everyone. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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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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Screaming Woman: Which, yes, eventually leads to Get A Hold Of Yourself Man | |
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Taking the Kids | |
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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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Falling into the Cockpit | |
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Falling into the Cockpit: Stryker has to take the controls after both pilots are stricken with food poisoning. | |
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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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Beta Couple: Janet, the flight attendant, and her ventriloquist boyfriend. | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: 11 years between Ted's mission in World War II and the present day. | |
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Excited Show Title! | |
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Excited Show Title!: It is, properly, Zero Hour! | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Ted lost most of his men on a mission, and is still bearing that guilt. | |
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This Is No Time to Panic | |
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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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Large Ham | |
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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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Contamination Situation | |
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Contamination Situation: Food poisoning, presumed to be due to hiring a new caterer. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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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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Refusal of the Call | |
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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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Busman's Holiday | |
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Busman's Holiday: Martin Treleaven is introduced wooing his wife on a dinner date... in full pilot's uniform. | |
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ISO-Standard Urban Groceries | |
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ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: Ted comes home with the standard paper bag with a loaf of French bread sticking out. | |
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Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat | |
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Overly Nervous Flop Sweat: Stryker sure does get sweaty. | |
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Relationship-Salvaging Disaster | |
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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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Oh, Crap! | |
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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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Crash Course Landing | |
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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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Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving | |
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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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Grew a Spine | |
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Grew a Spine: Stryker really comes into his own as he prepares to land the plane. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Stryker and Treleaven hold... less than fond memories of each other. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: Joey Stryker is a Littlest Food Poisoning Patient. | |
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Canada, Eh? | |
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Canada, Eh?: Averted; although the setting and characters are Canadian, the film features none of the usual stereotypes. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: Unless you count food poisoning and a Dark and Troubled Past as antagonists. | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety | |
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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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Plane Awful Flight | |
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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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Got Volunteered | |
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Got Volunteered: Basically, Stryker pushed into taking over as there's no one else on the plane who can fly. | |
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Billions of Buttons | |
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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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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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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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