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Air America (1990)

R | | Action, Comedy | 10 August 1990 (USA)
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A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift organization operating in Vietnam War Era Laos.

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Major Donald Lemond
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Senator Davenport
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Jack Neely (as Art La Fleur)
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Pirelli
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O.V.
David Bowe ...
Saunders
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General Lu Soong
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Babo
Harvey Jason ...
Nino
Sinjai Plengpanit ...
Gene's Wife (as Sinjai Hongthai)
Natta Nantatanti ...
Gene's Daughter
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Storyline

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors. Written by Jeff Cross <blackjac_1998@yahoo.com>

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pilot | cia | vietnam war | soldier | laos | See All (60) »

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Action | Comedy

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Release Date:

10 August 1990 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Air America: locos por el peligro  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$31,053,601 (USA)
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Trivia

The film was made and released about eleven years after the source non-fiction book by Christopher Robbins had been first published in 1979. The book was released about ten years after the events depicted in it had occurred in 1969. The book was one of several published works by the author on the film's subject area. See more »

Goofs

The parachute packs used to bail out of the plane were modern day sports packs that weren't patented until the '80s. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Richard Nixon: There are *no* American combat forces in Laos.
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Connections

Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Radar Secret Service (1993) See more »

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Rescue Me
Written by Raynard Miner and Carl Smith, also claimed by Fontella Bass
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A fun, leave-your-brains-at-the-door movie
17 December 2003 | by (here) – See all my reviews

I regard this as a classic war movie! It's fun, good acting, more fun, and factually correct, well up to a point of course! What I like about it, and what I feel makes it original, is that not many films were made about Laos, and also its a cheerful take on war, pretty original for that too I'd say. A good movie i could watch again and again. Excellent music too! 5/5 stars.
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