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The Hindenburg

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Nazi Germany's prized airship is threatened with sabotage, so Col. Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) is charged with its safety. As the massive zeppelin lifts off for a journey to the United States, Ritter investigates the passengers, looking for a potential bomber. Could it be anti-Nazi Countess Ursula von Reugen (Anne Bancroft), suspicious gambler Emilio Pajetta (Burgess Meredith), shifty advertising man Edward Douglas (Gig Young) or even the pilot, Capt. Pruss (Charles Durning) ?
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Pauline Kael The New Yorker 10/25/2023
The crockery may be authentic alright, but the picture is a crock. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/23/2004
1/4
The Hindenburg is a disaster picture, all right. How else can you describe a movie that cost $12 million and makes people laugh out loud at all the wrong times? Go to Full Review
Steve Warren The Barb (Atlanta) 05/09/2023
It's too bad the whole picture couldn't have been as gooding as the ending. Go to Full Review
David A. Nardozzi Philadelphia Gay News 05/26/2020
The time leading to the final moments, however, is simply boring and unsuspenseful. Go to Full Review
Donald McLean Bay Area Reporter 05/22/2020
The Hindenburg gives us the most realistic and dramatic of any disaster film yet. Go to Full Review
Bernard Drew Gannett News Service 10/22/2019
It seems more of a disaster than the act of God or sabotage it attempts to recreate. Go to Full Review
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thiago s @Thiagostone Sep 22 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom, só a cena da destruição do dirigível é boa. See more Giani C 11/18/2024 A little cheesy but still entertaining. And George C. Scott did pretty good. See more John S 12/31/2023 The production values in this film were incredible for the time... extremely well shot, and edited. See more Red T 09/15/2023 This is so flawed on multiple levels. The main issue is the horrifcally bad pacing. This is so boring, uninteresting to look at, and hard to follow for 90% of the runtime mainly because of the subpar editing and cinematography. The interior of the blimp is so boring and uninteresting besides the dining area, pilot area, and the deck. The scenes with the blimp flying are the most boring ones also as the thing moves at a snails pace and once you've seen it once there all the same and they drag terribly for like 5-6 seconds and should be 2. I thought this would be a disaster movie. It's actually a spy thriller for 90% of it and a disaster movie at the end. The actual explosion is really well done and blends stock footage really well. It's so well done I can't even tell the difference at points. The black and white really works well here and makes me think the whole thing should've been shot in that. The music is boring and generic as well. The acting is just ok also with boring characters who aren't even German. I don't understand how you don't have Germans not Patton playing Nazis. There is so much boring unneeded scenes like when they sing at the paino, the romance subplot with the countess, and all the other unneeded characters who get focus who don't add up to anything. On top of that they reveal halfway who the bomber is so there isn't even any suspense in that as you know what is going to happen to the ship. This needed German actors, shot in black and white in a surreal style, with more of a cat and mouse mystery, and with an actual blimp to get rid of those boring painting shots. Or make it about a fictional blimp based off true events so you don't disrepect the victims. I can't recommend this to anyone. It fails as a Thriller, disaster movie, and is a boring retelling of a disaster despite the really good 10 minutes of the disaster itself. Just watch the end on Youtube. See more delysid d 06/04/2018 a little dull but OK watch See more 05/26/2017 One of the weaker disaster flicks of the time period. Moves at a snails pace, where you'd think they'd be building tension, instead we just get a bunch of needless chit chat. Still, great cast, and impressive finale. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Nazi Germany's prized airship is threatened with sabotage, so Col. Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) is charged with its safety. As the massive zeppelin lifts off for a journey to the United States, Ritter investigates the passengers, looking for a potential bomber. Could it be anti-Nazi Countess Ursula von Reugen (Anne Bancroft), suspicious gambler Emilio Pajetta (Burgess Meredith), shifty advertising man Edward Douglas (Gig Young) or even the pilot, Capt. Pruss (Charles Durning) ?
Director
Robert Wise
Producer
Robert Wise
Screenwriter
Richard Levinson, William Link, Nelson Gidding
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Production Co
Universal Pictures, The Filmakers Group
Rating
PG
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 25, 1975, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 19, 2016
Runtime
2h 5m
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