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Cult Camp Classics 3 - Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell / Skyjacked / Zero Hour!)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Unknown
EAN: 0085391145233
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 085391145233
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Running Time: 283 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1957
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Genre: Cult
Rating: NR
Release Date: 26-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
It may be stretching things to call this trio of films Cult Classics (although Hot Rods to Hell does have its own fan appreciation website), but they provide more than enough cheap thrills and guilty pleasures to make this set irresistible to aficionados of BG (as in "so Bad they're Good") films. Whether it be Disney's Bon Voyage or Hostel: Part 2, travel has provided Hollywood with no end of horror stories. In Zero Hour (1957), it's not snakes on a plane, but tainted halibut that provides the terror, and with both pilots incapacitated by their unfortunate meal choice, it's up to traumatized pilot Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews) to overcome his "war record" and land the plane. If you're a comedy buff, then surely this scenario sounds familiar. Well, it should be familiar, and stop calling me "Shirley." This is the film that Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers mercilessly and meticulously spoofed in Airplane!. It's all here, right down to little Joey's visit to the cockpit (but without any references to gladiator films) and the rich dialogue the Airplane crew lifted nearly verbatim ("It's a different kind of flying altogether").
Andrews is back in the driver's seat in Hot Rods to Hell (1967), a film that loses a little something when not heard through the tinny speakers of a drive in theatre. Andrews stars as a man forced to put the brakes on the kicks-crazy hot-rodding punks terrorizing his family. "These kids have nowhere to go," a local cop stoically observes. "And they want to get there at 150 miles an hour." Laurie Mock costars as Andrews' conflicted teenage daughter who catches the leader's eye (he's tired of "stale bread" Mimsy Farmer). The dialogue is wicked cool and the overwrought acting all over the road. In short: don't let this pass you by. Andrews isn't on board in Skyjacked (1972), but we feel more confident with Charlton Heston at the controls as the no-nonsense pilot ("That man doesn't fool around," a colleague observes), whose plane is being hijacked to Moscow. The cast is a made-for-TV movie lover's dream, with Yvette Mimieux as a stewardess in peril (and Heston's former flame), Susan Dey, former football great Roosevelt Grier as a cellist, Walter Pidgeon as a senator, James Brolin as the very wired Vietnam vet, and Claude Akins providing ground control. This one's more of a bumpy ride, but the cheesy dialogue, earnest performances and soap opera developments keep Skyjacked flying high. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Trouble with Travels
Whether it's for a vacation or a business trip, typically the worst part of any excursion is the traveling. It can often be tedious and frustrating, and that's if only minor things go wrong. Sometimes, however, other things can intervene and make things even worse. Such is the premise of the three movies in the third volume of the Warner Brothers Cult Camp Classics, Terrorized Travelers.
The first movie in this set (chronologically) is Zero Hour! with Dana Andrews as an ex-fighter ... Read More
Rating:  - It looks like the producers of "AIRPLANE" picked the right time to release a movie!
Finally, the producers of AIRPLANE! are finally cutting loose Zero Hour!, the film and many others that provided funny fodder for the parody movie AIRPLANE!
Update: Just finished watching Zero Hour! It really is a very good movie in its own right but several times I couldn't stop chuckling as so many of the lines are replicated verbatim in AIRPLANE! Excellent!
As far as 'Hot Rods To Hell', which BTW stars one of my favorite actresses, the beautiful Jeanne Crain, I rate ... Read More
Rating: - I can't believe all three of these movies in one box set at such a great price
I've always wanted to get all of these movies for years, and now there are coming out in one box set and at a great price. I've always loved Linda Darnell and she's in Zero Hour which the comedy Airplane is party based on. Hot Rods To Hell has Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain who started in the 1945 State Fair. This movie has never been on DVD before. If you bought these movies on their own each is about $14.00 on Amazon.com. I don't see how you can go wrong with paying $[...] for this boxset. ... Read More
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