Fate Is the Hunter (film)
Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 film about the crash of an airliner and the subsequent investigation it was directed by Ralph Nelson and released by 20th Century Fox.
Fate Is the Hunter was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 memoir of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result as it bore no relation to the book which was about Ganns own early flying career that he asked to have his name removed from the credits. In his autobiography, A Hostage to Fortune, Gann wrote, They obliged and, as a result, I deprived myself of the TV residuals, a medium in which the film played interminably. Some prints of the film were released with Ganns name still in the opening credits immediately before that of Harold Medford, author of the screenplay.The Consolidated Airways jet aircraft used in the film was one of two fabricated from DC7B donors, the second was used to create the crash scene on the beach. The wings were reportedly removed and reversed, a Boeing 707 nose cone along with supersonic spike were also added in order to achieve the appearance of a modern jet airliner. Modifications to the rear section of the aircraft included the addition of two nacelles to accommodate the simulated jet engines. A rearmounted Boeing 707 spikestyled HF antenna isolator, and antenna were also added to the tail section. ........
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