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8 September 1972 (Finland)
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The Sky's The Limit For Suspense more
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A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes...
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Decent.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Charlton Heston | ... | Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara | |
| Yvette Mimieux | ... | Angela Thacher | |
| James Brolin | ... | Jerome K. Weber | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Sgt. Ben Puzo | |
| Jeanne Crain | ... | Mrs. Clara Shaw | |
| Susan Dey | ... | Elly Brewster | |
| Roosevelt Grier | ... | Gary Brown | |
| Mariette Hartley | ... | Harriet Stevens | |
| Walter Pidgeon | ... | Sen. Arne Lindner | |
| Ken Swofford | ... | John Bimonte | |
| Leslie Uggams | ... | Lovejoy Wells | |
| Ross Elliott | ... | Harold Shaw | |
| Nicholas Hammond | ... | Peter Lindner | |
| Mike Henry | ... | Sam Allen | |
| Jayson Kane | ... | William Reading (as Jayson William Kane) |
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Sky Terror (USA) (TV title)
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101 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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The 'Global Airways' plane used in the movie was a World Airways Boeing 707 (N374WA). World Airways home base at the time was Oakland Metropolitan Airport, where just about all of the airport scenes in the movie were filmed.
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Revealing mistakes: A Boeing 707 has ten cockpit windows, including two smaller "eyebrow" windows above each pilot. These windows are seen in all exterior shots, and in some of the fighter fly-bys shot from the airliner cockpit. Through most of the movie, however, the interior arrangement of the cockpit windows includes one full-sized window in the cockpit ceiling above each pilot. No airliner matches this window configuration, revealing the cockpit to be an elaborate set.
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John Bimonte: [Hank is doing his walk-around the aircraft] Hey, Hank! Ready to go.
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara: Wrong! You got a broken cowling latch here.
John Bimonte: What the hell? I'll get right on it.
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara: Take all the time you want, John. You got 10 minutes.
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John Bimonte: [Hank is doing his walk-around the aircraft] Hey, Hank! Ready to go.
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara: Wrong! You got a broken cowling latch here.
John Bimonte: What the hell? I'll get right on it.
Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara: Take all the time you want, John. You got 10 minutes.
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This old-fashioned disaster film is not bad, despite a few slips into soapy silliness (the flashbacks). Charlton Heston is commanding as always (when he says "Nobody dies on my airplane!", you believe it), and there is even a little Agatha Christie-type mystery in the beginning, concerning the identity of the mad hijacker. (**1/2)