The Hindenburg by the DVD Man

The Hindenburg is one of those 70's movies that are probably remembered as better than they are 30 years later. Of course, it's got the Titanic problem of already knowing the ending.

George C. Scott plays a German security officer, who's along to protect the giant bag of explosive hydrogen. He finds out who's got the bomb, but doesn't like the Nazis because they made him bomb some Basques as practice for WWII.

The Hindenburg crashed on May 6, 1937 in Lakehurst NJ and even though it burst into a giant fireball 400 feet high, 62 of the 97 on board survived.

Robert Wise is the director and he used archival footage in B/W at the beginning and end of the movie. The production notes on the DVD are interesting. George C. Scott plays Franz, so I guess that counts as a Frank and there is another character named Frankel, so that's at least 1.5 Franks.

It's a very slow moving movie, but it does have Anne Bancroft and Burgess Meredith playing poker, so that's a plus.

Here is the real photo of the Hindenburg as it's on fire.