Cult Camp Classics 3 - Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell / Skyjacked / Zero Hour!)
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Actor: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Linda DarnellBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 283 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Cult Camp Classics 3 - Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell / Skyjacked / Zero Hour!)
Movie Review: The Trouble with Travels
Summary: 3 Stars
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 pilot who, even ten years after the end of the war, is still plagued by flashbacks of a mission gone wrong. This trauma has led to an erratic employment record and his wife decides to leave him. Andrews pursues her onto her airplane and tries to win her back during the flight. Then both pilots (and many of the passengers) come down with food poisoning, forcing Andrews to come to terms with his inner demons as he attempts to land the plane.
If this sounds familiar, it's because Airplane! is essentially a comic remake of this movie. The plot is almost the same, the titles both end in exclamation points and the main characters have the same names. There are little differences, such as Andrews is trying to reconnect with his wife and child while in Airplane!, Robert Hays's is seeking reconciliation with his girlfriend who's also a stewardess. Unfortunately, like me, most Zero Hour! viewers will be much more familiar with Airplane! than its predecessor, making it hard to look at the earlier film on its own merits. I found, however, that this is a generally decent movie, with Andrews as his usual solid and stolid character. Linda Darnell, however, is better at bad girl roles (like Fallen Angel, No Way Out and My Darling Clementine) than as Andrews's wife.
Dana Andrews is also in Hot Rods to Hell, the campiest of the movies in the set. This time, he is a father taking his family from Boston to California to run a motel After being nearly killed in an auto accident, Andrews is reluctant to get behind the wheel of a car, a feeling that isn't helped when he has some encounters with hot-rodding teens, one of whom is lusting after Andrews's teenage daughter. The basic message of the movie seems to be that all teenagers are bad (or at least stupid), but Andrews (and his June Cleaver-esque wife played by Jeanne Craine) are so square, it is hard to really root for them either. Everyone overacts in their one-dimensional roles (only the character of the former motel owner seems to have any real personality). This fits more in the "so-bad-it's-good" category than in either the "good" or "bad" slots.
Just as Andrews seems to connect the first two movies, Jeanne Crain links Hot Rods to Hell to Skyjacked, albeit in the rather minor role as a passenger. The lead here is Charlton Heston as the pilot of an airplane that is forced to be rerouted to Anchorage when a bomb threat appears on a restroom mirror. This is one of those all-star airplane disaster movies with, among others, Yvette Mimeux, James Brolin, Roosevelt Grier, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Dey and Mariette Hartley. This soap opera/thriller on a plane is passable entertainment but not really camp; I suppose it would've been campier if when Heston confronted the bomber, he proclaimed Moses-like, "Let my people go!"
This is all three-star fare with little in the way of extras. Zero Hour! has a certain extra value for Airplane! fans and Hot Rods to Hell has the camp factor, but this is just an okay set (of the first three, I rate this one in the middle, ahead of Volume 2 (Women in Peril) but behind the really fun Volume 1 (Sci-Fi Thrillers).
Summary of Cult Camp Classics 3 - Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell / Skyjacked / Zero Hour!)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/26/2007It 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
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