The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977) (TV)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Robert Michael Lewis

Writers:

Lou LaRose (story)
George Lefferts (writer)

Release Date:

24 October 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists. |

Plot Keywords:

Beauty Contest Finalist | Beauty Contest | Bacterial Warfare | Airplane Hijack | Hijacking

Cast

Gary Collins	...	Paul Fabiani
Chuck Connors	...	Mike O'Toole
Henry Gibson	...	Rolly Royce
Peter Haskell	...	Damon Faulkner
Karen Lamm	...	Cindy Lou Barrett
Sheree North	...	Layla Burden
Victoria Principal	...	Reba Bar Lev
Gregory Sierra	...	Omar Welk
Phil Silvers	...	Marv Barker
Stella Stevens	...	Kate Malloy
Rosanne Katon	...	April Garland
Jonathan Banks	...	Buck
William Bassett	...	Smitty
Marcia Lewis	...	Mrs. Barrett
Burke Byrnes	...	Barney Jessup

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Don Kirshner Productions

Dumb-how the not-so-mighty have fallen even farther

I suppose at some level this is a little bit appealing. A group of beauty contestants forced to be holed up in a sheet metal shed, awaiting a ransom. But it's all exploitative and dumb and pointless. Poor Chuck Connors; poor Gary Collins, poor Henry Gibson. Don't you feel for them? They were pretty important in their own worlds at one time. Not much left to say. They must have needed a few bucks. The girls are nice to look at and that maniac woman with her machine gun waving endlessly is sort of amusing, but it's all claptrap. It also suffers from one of the dullest decades in history, the 70's. It has that vapid look about it. Add to the do not resuscitate file.