Hi Krusty ol mate......
The thing I find interesting about the movie 'Fate is the Hunter' is that Ernie Gann was hired as the screen writer for the script (as he was for a number of successful films), however, in this case as he said in his autobiography 'Hostage to Fortune' the film was hijacked by Hollywood and the final product was less than successful.
For those of us that like aeroplanes with round engines, I think 'The Crowded Sky' is a hoot. It was made in 1960 and the acting is as wooden as a forest of trees, but is does have some good footage of DC7 airliner operations immediately before the Jet age. Now that I think of it the same could be said in every respect about the original 'Airport' movie (1970) showing B707 and DC8 airline action.
'Animalclub', if you do a bit of research I think you'll find the Mr. Gann who chronicled the Douglas Aircraft history was not related to Ernie Gann!!