From the best seller by Ernest K Gann (author of The High and The Mighty) Fate is the Hunter details a horrific airplane crash and, in it's aftermath, the desperate attempt to discover what brought plane, passengers and crew to their fiery fate. Directed by Ralph Nelson, with superbly black-and-white cinematography by Milton Krasner, this combination of disaster movie and mystery interweaves the stories of a dogged investigator (Glenn Ford), the doomed pilot (Rod Taylor), his bereaved girlfriend (Nancy Kwan), and the tragedy's sole survivor (Suzanne Pleshette), building to a climax of breath-taking tension.