Archive for October 3rd, 2005

The Hindenburg (1975)

Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Goebbels: There is no resistance movement, Colonel!

Ritter: That’s reassuring, coming from the Minister of Propoganda.

The Hindenburg

Day eight of my own little Robert Wise Film Festival

Think of The Hindenburg as kind of like Titanic, except without the romance or an interesting story. Both films deal with fictional portrayals of real life disasters involving famous vessels, one at sea, one in the air, but for Titanic to be as bad as The Hindenburg, Captain Smith would have been shown deliberately steering the ship into the iceberg for reasons that would be left inadequately explored.

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