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Jet Storm

  • 19591959
  • 1h 28m
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6.5/10
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Jet Storm (1959)
Thriller
Sir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatenin... Read allSir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airp... Read allSir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airport-type movie with all the passengers having their own little subplots and fears.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
472
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    • Cy Endfield
    • Cy Endfield(screenplay)
    • Sigmund Miller(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Richard Attenborough
    • Stanley Baker
    • Hermione Baddeley
    • Cy Endfield
    • Cy Endfield(screenplay)
    • Sigmund Miller(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Richard Attenborough
    • Stanley Baker
    • Hermione Baddeley
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    • 16User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Richard Attenborough
    Richard Attenborough
    • Ernest Tilley
    Stanley Baker
    Stanley Baker
    • Captain Bardow
    Hermione Baddeley
    Hermione Baddeley
    • Mrs. Satterly
    Bernard Braden
    Bernard Braden
    • Otis Randolf
    Diane Cilento
    Diane Cilento
    • Angelica Como
    Barbara Kelly
    Barbara Kelly
    • Edwina Randolf
    David Kossoff
    David Kossoff
    • Dr. Bergstein
    Virginia Maskell
    Virginia Maskell
    • Pam Leyton
    Harry Secombe
    Harry Secombe
    • Binky Meadows
    Elizabeth Sellars
    Elizabeth Sellars
    • Inez Barrington
    Sybil Thorndike
    Sybil Thorndike
    • Emma Morgan
    • (as Dame Sybil Thorndike)
    Mai Zetterling
    Mai Zetterling
    • Carol Tilley
    Marty Wilde
    Marty Wilde
    • Billy Forrester
    Patrick Allen
    Patrick Allen
    • Mulliner
    Paul Carpenter
    • George Towers
    Megs Jenkins
    Megs Jenkins
    • Rose Brock
    Jocelyn Lane
    Jocelyn Lane
    • Clara Forrester
    • (as Jackie Lane)
    Cec Linder
    Cec Linder
    • Colonel Coe
      • Cy Endfield
      • Cy Endfield(screenplay)
      • Sigmund Miller(screenplay) (original story)
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    • Trivia
      The aircraft on which this movie is set is a Tupolev Tu-104. This was a Soviet Russian-made passenger jet, code-named "Camel" by N.A.T.O. In this movie, the airline, on which the passengers fly, is a British one running a London to New York City service. However, it does seem highly unusual that they are operating this service with a Soviet-made Jet aircraft, especially since this movie was made during the height of the Cold War. In this movie, when the jet takes off, its Aeroflot markings and Soviet flag are easily visible. The Tu-104 was only operated by the U.S.S.R. and other Communist-affiliated countries, and the aircraft would not have been able to run a full passenger London to New York City service without a stopover (as occurs in the movie). Why the producers chose this aircraft and not the British-made Comet 4 or Boeing 707 (both aircraft had the range to cross the Atlantic) is a mystery.
    • Goofs
      When Capt. Bardow is pleading with Tilley, he tells him that there are 32 human beings on board the airplane. In fact, there are only 30 people on board the plane, 8 members of the flight team (captain, co-pilot, engineer, navigator, radio man, stewardess, steward, and bartender/purser) and 22 others.
    • Quotes

      Capt. Bardow: Mr Tilley you're a decent man, you must fight this madness with everything you've got.

    • Connections
      Featured in Talkies: Remembering Stanley Baker: Talking Pictures with Glyn Baker (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      Theme Music
      Composed and Sung by Marty Wilde

      Song Lyrics written by Cy Endfield

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    8/10
    "I'd only had three drinks...."
    This is basically a disaster movie prototype, from before there were such things. It wasn't the first film made about a flight in peril, but it was one of the first to feature a jet aircraft. This film is chock-a-block with fine acting talent and the claustrophic confines of the aircraft make for a good 'plot pressure cooker' that eventually brings things to a head.

    Actually the confines of the aircraft are not anywhere near as small as they ought to be; the aircraft cabin set is eerily quiet, and incredibly spacious, having eight foot plus ceilings, wide seats and a huge gangway. There is a downstairs lounge too, with a second row of windows (unseen in any external shots), a bar and a luggage hold that you can wander around in. Jet aircraft were certainly not like that at the time and in fact never really have been. The camera work has just a hint of sway to it; enough to suggest the aircraft is actually flying, but without making you feel seasick watching it. The aircraft used in the film vary; in long shots prior to and during take-off a medium-haul Aeroflot Tu104A (CCCP-42390) is used, however they are seen boarding G-AOYM (actually a BEA Vickers Viscount, with no jet engine exhaust in the trailing edge of the wing root of course) and announce themselves using a different call sign (G-AJOR) to the control tower. A Tu104-esque model is used too, which is also marked G-AJOR. Near the end of the film a completely different aircraft, a turboprop of some kind, is seen in twilight.

    The film was released in 1959; the only passenger jet aircraft flying for most of the previous three years had been the Tu104. Both the Boeing 707 and the DH Comet IV had been flying transatlantic since October 1958, but portraying either type in a disaster movie would have been a political hot potato; effectively the US and UK aircraft industries were busy duking it out for the long haul jet aircraft market. Choosing the Tu104 to represent a fictional type flying the equally fictional 'Atlantic Queen' service was a neat way out of any controversy that might so be caused.

    It is a pretty good film, this, all told; an interesting period piece, a proto-disaster movie, a hothouse of acting talent.
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    • Release date
      • November 20, 1959 (Ireland)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Shepperton Studios, Studios Road, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Britannia Films
      • Pendennis Productions
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    • 1 hour 28 minutes
      • Black and White

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