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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Robert M. Young (screenplay)
Peter R. Brooke (story)
Release Date:
27 February 1983 (USA) more
Tagline:
The first hypersonic flight turns into a terrifying nightmare...in space. [Australia Theatrical] more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good TV Movie version of an Airport film more (10 total)
Cast
(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 |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Starflight One (USA) (video title)
Airport 85 (Philippines: English title) (theatrical title)
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Runtime:
115 min | Spain:109 min | West Germany:108 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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West Germany:12 | Australia:G | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12
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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. more
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Continuity: When the passenger tube explodes due to a spark igniting oxygen, both Starflight and Columbia should also have been destroyed. more
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The earlier reviewer who said that Starflight (or as my video copy is titled, Starflight One) should have been called Airport '83 hit the nail on the head. This is very much an Airport style disaster movie, albeit one with pretty decent effects (for a TV movie from 1983!) and a very original storyline. Its not great by any stretch of the imagination, but I found it to be a diverting way to spend 2 hours, and that is all I asked from it. I liked Lee Majors, and Hal Linden, but the rest of the cast was lacking. Dykstra's effects are very good for the most part, and I really enjoyed his model work and motion control shots -- very nice especially considering they were crafted for the small screen. If you like Airport and its sequels (as I do), then this hard to find TV movie is worth checking out.