Review – The Hindenburg

Despite the relatively low loss of life, the conflagration captured on film when the pride of Germany’s dirigible fleet caught fire is dramatic enough to keep this disaster at least interesting enough to make a movie out of it decades later. George C. Scott stars as a Luftwaffe officer assigned to ferret out a saboteur aboard what turns out to be the final flight of the Hindenburg. Various suspects crop up during the voyage, so many in fact that it’s almost a shame when the bomb-planter is finally uncovered. As conspiracy movies go this one has trouble competing with other events that had a slightly greater impact on world events (though I suppose folks in the blimp industry might beg to differ). Still, it’s an entertaining story in a JFK meets Titanic kind of way. Mildly amusing