One of my all time favorites.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Best movie of this year hands down!

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I had never seen Fate is the Hunter until today. I had bought the DVD because I liked the cast. Glenn Ford & Rod Taylor have leads roles. Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette & Wally Cox have the supporting roles. It is basically a story of a plane crash and Glenn Ford's determination to prove that his old war buddy Rod Taylor was not the cause of the crash. He has a lot of doubts about his friends character until he talks with Nancy Kwan, Wally Cox and another war buddy. It changes that way he looks at his friend. There is a hearing and it's decided by Ford to recreate the circumstances and take the plane up to see what happened. Without spoiling the ending, it is thrilling to the last minute waiting to see what caused the crash. A suberb film. I only wish Nancy Kwan and Wally Cox had more screen time. Buy the DVD or Blu Ray today.

This movie is one of my all-time favorites that I'm happy to share tonight with my movie-buff husband who has never seen it. (I'll bet Tony DiNozzo would remember it, though.) I've been trying to remember the title for ages (couldn't recall Rod Taylor's last name to look it up online. Getting senile I guess.)I agree with Roscoe-4. "It illustrates the many zany and unusual things that can happen to change our lives forever." The actual cause of this plane crash has stuck with me since I first saw the film over 30 years ago on TV. Many times I have caught myself in the midst of a possible negative chain-of-events and changed something I was doing because of this movie (especially if there was a cup of coffee involved in what I was doing). It also probably lead to my interest in Multivariate Statistics (quantification of the phenomenon of multiple variables leading to a single outcome.)Personally, I think everyone should see this film. At least it tells a person to keep looking deeper for causes instead of assuming that "what you think is accurate" is also worth believing just because "it makes sense" to you. "It makes sense" should never be enough by itself to lead us all the way to a conclusion.

I'm afraid that I am not as enthusiastic about this film as so many other reviewers seem, bewilderingly, to be. The writing is dreadful, painting comic-book characters with no depth or subtlety. Glenn Ford does his best to make his central character interesting but nearly all of the main characters in the film are middle-aged men who spend most of their screen time shouting and snarling at each other. This is especially true of Rod Taylor's character who is absolutely ridiculous and as likable as a sticky doorknob.The basic premise of the story is silly, too. While commercial air crash investigations have certainly become more systematic and sophisticated since the 1960's, they were never such shallow, personal journeys as this story would depict. One man's journey to vindicate an old war buddy...who he really didn't even like. Oh please.And what the heck is with that utterly irrelevant cameo by Jane Russell?! If you're on a mission to see every Glenn Ford film and you've missed this one, then by all means sit in front of it once. But I really doubt you'll want to sit through it a second time. It's just too painful.

Ernest K Gann, the author of Fate is the hunter,reportedly was unhappy with this interpretation of his 1961 memoir of the same name. Having read the book, I can understand why he might have felt that way. Gann's memoir is a rich tapestry of a flyer's life from biplane to four engine passenger airliner,while Harold Medford's screenplay is really just a pastiche of some of the story threads in the book.Having said that, Fate is the Hunter the film, stands on its own as an immensely satisfying story that takes an increasingly strong grip on the viewer and never lets go. Rod Taylor plays airline captain Jack Savage, who's killed along with his crew and passengers in the crash of the fictional Consolidated Airlines flight 22. Airline VP McBain, played by Glenn Ford, believes something other than pilot error was responsible for the disaster, but must battle his own colleagues and public perception of Savage in order to clear the dead pilot's name. The film, shot in cinemascope, uses the wide screen effectively, and the crisp editing advances the story without sacrificing the narrative flow. All of the actors acquit themselves well,and Jerry Goldsmith's haunting score hits just the right note of melancholy. This is a sad, yet ultimately uplifting film, and although Gann might not have liked the result, the finished movie does manage to retain the tone and philosophy of his fabulous book.