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Air America (1990)

Air America | United States of America

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.

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Description

Director

Roger Spottiswoode

Writers

Richard Rush
John Eskow

Stars

Mel Gibson
Gene Ryack

Robert Downey Jr.
Billy Covington

Nancy Travis
Corinne Landreaux

Ken Jenkins
Major Donald Lemond

David Marshall Grant
Rob Diehl

Lane Smith
Senator Davenport

Art LaFleur
Jack Neely

Ned Eisenberg
Pirelli

Marshall Bell
O.V.

David Bowe
Saunders

Others...

Budget

35,000,000.00

Revenue

57,700,000.00

Links

Keywords

cia, pilot, 1960s, drugs, airplane, vietnam war, drug smuggle, refugee camp, laos

Production

Carolco Pictures, IndieProd Company Productions

Actor

Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant, Lane Smith, Art LaFleur, Ned Eisenberg, Marshall Bell, David Bowe, Burt Kwouk, Tim Thomerson, Harvey Jason, Natta Nantatanti, Purin Panichpan, Yani Tramod, Ernie Lively, Burke Byrnes, Michael Dudikoff, Sinjai Plengpanit

Creators

Roger Deakins (Director of Photography), Roger Spottiswoode (Director), Janet Hirshenson (Casting), Jane Jenkins (Casting), Mario Kassar (Executive Producer), John Bloom (Editor), Allan Cameron (Production Design), Daniel Melnick (Producer), Richard Rush (Screenplay), Charles Gross (Original Music Composer), Lois Freeman-Fox (Editor), Andrew G. Vajna (Executive Producer), John Eskow (Screenplay), Allen Shapiro (Producer), Jon Jashni (Producer), Christopher Robbins (Novel), Michael J. Kagan (Line Producer), Nikki Williams (Clapper Loader), John Mollo (Costume Design), Bob Beher (Assistant Sound Editor), Tony Reading (Art Direction), George Gibbs (Special Effects Supervisor), Steve Spence (Art Direction), Peter Robb-King (Key Makeup Artist), Dennis Bosher (Assistant Art Director), Per Hallberg (Assistant Sound Editor), Vic Armstrong (Stunt Coordinator), Lon Bender (Supervising Sound Editor), Simon Kaye (Sound Mixer), Tricia Cameron (Hairstylist), Alicia Stevenson (Foley Artist), Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat (Assistant Art Director), Artist W. Robinson (Second Assistant Director), Steven Lambert (Stunts), Lois Burwell (Makeup Supervisor), Barbara Rutter (Assistant Costume Designer), Fred Carter (Set Decoration), Dan O'Connell (Foley Artist), David E. Campbell (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Gregg Rudloff (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Angela Wharton (Script Supervisor), John T. Reitz (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Avram D. Gold (ADR Editor), Mark O'Kane (Steadicam Operator), John Higgins (Gaffer), Mike Proudfoot (Camera Operator), Rob Harris (Unit Publicist), Joseph A. Mayer (ADR Editor), Kevin Edland (Best Boy Electric), Curtis Roush (Supervising Music Editor), Frank Connor (Still Photographer), Thom 'Coach' Ehle (Dolby Consultant), Devon Heffley Curry (Supervising ADR Editor), Gordon Hayman (Camera Operator), Becky Mancuso-Winding (Music Supervisor), Sukey Fontelieu (Foley Supervisor), Phil Hetos (Color Timer), William Henry (First Assistant Editor), Tommy Staples (Boom Operator), Elaine Bowerbank (Hair Supervisor), Patsy de Lord (Production Coordinator), Tim Sexton (Music Supervisor), Albert M. Shapiro (First Assistant Director), Carl Schmidt (Armorer), Bob Kocourek (Production Accountant), Robert Toft (Video Assist Operator), Gerry Levy (Unit Production Manager), Noori Dehnahi (Post Production Coordinator), Paul Hodgson (Associate Editor), Brian Ralph (Negative Cutter), Lisa Miller (Assistant Sound Editor)

Alternative titles

Air America: locos por el peligro (AR)

Release dates

26.09.1990 (AU)
12.07.1991 (DK)
09.01.1991 (DE)
04.10.1990 (BR)
09.01.1991 (IT)
10.08.1990 (US)
15.12.1990 (GR)
04.01.1991 (GB)
14.11.1990 (FR)
01.01.2016 (FR)
28.02.2001 (FR)
02.10.1990 (NO)
02.04.1992 (XC)
14.11.1990 (FR)

Air America (1990)

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