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movie Zero Hour!

Released: November 13, 1957
Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes
Drama Thriller

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

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