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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983) (TV)
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27 February 1983 (USA)
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The first hypersonic flight turns into a terrifying nightmare...in space. [Australia Theatrical] more
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The fictional story of the first "hypersonic" commercial passenger plane, which can make the flight from New York to London in a mere four hours...
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MST3K-caliber awful
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Lee Majors | ... | Captain Cody Briggs |
 | Hal Linden | ... | Josh Gilliam |
 | Lauren Hutton | ... | Erica Hansen |
 | Ray Milland | ... | Q. T. Thornwell |
| Gail Strickland | ... | Nancy Gilliam |
| George DiCenzo | ... | Bowdish (as George Di Cenzo) |
 | Tess Harper | ... | Janet Briggs |
| Terry Kiser | ... | Freddie Barrett |
 | Heather McAdam | ... | Laurie Hansen (as Heather Mc Adam) |
| Michael Sacks | ... | Pete |
 | Gary Bayer | ... | Martin |
| Pat Corley | ... | Joe Pedowski |
| Robert Webber | ... | Felix |
| Jocelyn Brando | ... | Mrs. Harvey |
| Diane Stilwell | ... | Betty |
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115 min | Spain:109 min | West Germany:108 min
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The movie is loosely based on the novel "Orbit" by Thomas H. Block, from 1982. In the novel, a hypersonic plane on a cruise from New York to Sidney excesses its cruise altitude due to sabotage by a revenge-seeking company engineer.
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Continuity: In many scenes, including the escape through the tunnel, there is visible evidence of gravity being present, while the spacecraft is in a zero gravity environment.
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In fact I think this was a KTMA episode. But one scene that stands out in my mind indelibly is the one where Hal Linden's character is spirited off Starflight by sticking him in the coffin that was transporting the Australian ambassador to the US back home for burial or some such, and the body is stiff as a board (or a mannequin) after being removed from the casket and floats around the cargo hold wearing the pointiest shoes I've ever seen . Somehow I don't think a casket is airtight enough to survive the rigors of spaceflight!