This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This is a well directed and shot movie. Just as every good story the "teller" weaving the yarn either shows you or tells you all the detail you need to solve the mystery. The same is as in this one, but the journey to the end makes you think and wonder about the event the entire film. Who really did it?Is the airline VP correct? Could this happen? With less CSI ability than today, it came down to people, what they say, what they don't and you have to the detective thinking. I had a hard time obtaining a copy of this file, but it was worth the hunt. You have to remember every "card" that is shown you to figure this one out.....If you can!

Good performances but it turned me off from the very beginning when the writers thought that it was OK to introduce us to the African American child flying alone and then kill her off with the rest of the unknown passengers. I guess they thought the audience of 1964 wouldn't be overly disturbed by this incident. This really bothered me; that cute little girl with her doll.The cameo of Dorothy Malone was fun to see, although her character was not particularly interesting.I guess you really have to be a Glen Ford fan. It was interesting at the beginning when we thought that we had missed the beginning of the movie where the opening credits roll past. From reading other comments, I'd like to check out the book that shares the title of this movie.

Fate Is The Hunter casts Glenn Ford as an airline executive and former pilot who is investigating the crash of an airline at his airport where a former Korean war buddy Rod Taylor was the pilot. Most on the flight were killed, one of the survivors was stewardess Susanne Pleshette.Ford has a vested interest both professional and personal, he hired Taylor as a pilot and his judgment is called in question as well. And Taylor was a roguish sort of guy who bent the rules considerably. But Ford knew Taylor as a man cool in combat and we see Taylor after the initial crash in all sides of his character in flashback.The film is based on an Ernest K. Gann novel who also gave us Island In The Sky and The High And The Mighty. The film keeps the attention throughout with its documentary like approach. Ford is a man with a disagreeable task and he's praying his faith in Taylor will not be in vain.The airline is more interested in covering itself in case of potential lawsuits than at getting at the truth. Pilot error is the easiest explanation all around and Taylor's past doesn't help any.There are a couple of noteworthy supporting performances first being Dorothy Malone who was not billed oddly enough as a party girl who Taylor was involved with and dumped. It's a chip off the performance Malone gave as Marilee Hadley in Written On The Wind. Also noteworthy is Wally Cox who was a fellow crewman on Taylor and Ford's ship in Korea who provides an insight into an incident in Korea that Ford does not remember fondly.What does cause the crash? It's something quite trivial, but Taylor's posthumous reputation owes a debt of gratitude to Susanne Pleshette surviving the crash and to the black box recording even then, standard on commercial flights. It was kind of quaint seeing the airline investigators playing the black box recording on those old fashioned reel to reel tapes.For aviation fans and fans of the principal players and many others. A really good piece of work that all the cast could take pride in.

Fate is the Hunter (1964)A melodrama with a failed airplane at the center of things, and so many implausible aspects it's hard to really follow it through without a groan. Glenn Ford is a terrific actor but he depends on his grimness to such a uniform extreme here it's oppressive. And idea of defending an old war buddy is great, and of duplicating the events leading to a plane crash, too, but it is taken to great extremes.Not that it isn't interesting, for sure, in ways. But coincidences mount, and then that darned coffee cup spilling into the electronics. Gosh, no one thought that might be a problem?Check out the shot of the airplane with sandbags with all their seatbelts on for passengers. A funny moment. There are war flashbacks, a pair of stewardesses who catch the pilot's eye, and the alcoholic buddy who comes through in the end. It's a simple idea stretched into a barely tolerable two hours. Nicely made and nicely shot, and with decent acting all around, but trapped in a strange narrative.