Air America
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1990
1h 52m
R
English
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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Air America
R
Movie
1990
1h 52m
English
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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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Cast
Gene Ryack
Billy Covington
Corinne Landreaux
Major Donald Lemond
Rob Diehl
Senator Davenport
Jack Neely
Pirelli
O.V.
Saunders
General Lu Soong
Babo
Nino
Gene's Daughter
Gene's Son
Gene's Brother-in-law
Truck Driver
Recruiter
General Lee (uncredited)
May Ling
Nightclub Singer
Directed By: Roger Spottiswoode
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
When "Billy" (Robert Downey Jr.) loses his pilot's licence after a lively misdemeanour, he finds himself working in war-torn Laos with the team at "Air America". This is a CIA-backed operation consisting of a disparate bunch of pilots whose job it is to fly in supplies to local villages. It's there More
GenerationofSwine
one year ago
I have a special love for this film, if for no other reason that the bulk of my college experience was spent on the cold war, the alphabet soup of PBSUCCESS, MKULTRA, JMWAVE, PAPERCLIP, COLDFEET, MKOFTEN, The Phoenix Program, ARTICHOKE, and my favorite (just because of how bad it sounds) Midnight Cl More
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