Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 American black-and-white aviation disaster film that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor. Fate Is the Hunter also features Jane Russell (playing herself entertaining for the USO in a flashback sequence). Dorothy Malone also makes an uncredited appearance.

The film's story-line concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations, himself a pilot, refuses to accept that conclusion and demands that the inquiry probe deeper into all the circumstances that contributed to the disaster. The film explores the lives of passengers and crew as well as the technical operations of aircraft, the process of investigation, and the pressures brought to bear by relentless news media and industry politics.

Glenn Ford as Sam McBane
Nancy Kwan as Sally Fraser
Rod Taylor as Jack Savage
Suzanne Pleshette as Martha Webster
Jane Russell as Guest Star
Constance Towers as Peg Burke
Wally Cox as Ralph Bundy
Nehemiah Persoff as Ben Sawyer
Mark Stevens as Mickey Doolan
Max Showalter as Dan Crawford
Dorothy Malone as Lisa Bond (uncredited)
Howard St. John as Mark Hutchins
Robert J. Wilke as Stillman
Bert Freed as Charles J. Dillon
Dort Clark as Ted Wilson
Mary Wickes as Mrs. Llewlyn
Robert F. Simon as Proctor

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