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Director:
Leslie Woodhead
Writer:
Michael Eaton (writer)
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Release Date:
9 December 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | Drama more
Plot:
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A decent portrayal but lacks some emotion! more (2 total)

Cast

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Tariq Alibai ... Abu Talb
Tony Alleff ... Abdel Fatteh Ghadanfar
Jassem Arif ... Helsinki Caller

Ned Beatty ... C. Edward Acker
Richard Bebb ... Justice Offical
David Becalick ... Passport Officer
Paul Birchard ... Pan Am Security Employee

Peter Boyle ... Fred Ford
Jonathan Bridge ... German Plainclothes Policeman
Sandra Butterworth ... Profile Screener 2
Nigel Cooke ... Baggage Porter
Michael Cronin ... Martin Hübner
Peter Darling ... Profile Screener 1
Harry Ditson ... Martin Shugrue
Richard Durden ... BKA Interrogator
Robin Ellis ... Narrator
Cherif Ezzeldin ... Saleem
Al Fiorentini ... Maltese Shopkeeper

Sasson Gabai ... Marwan Khreesat
Vincent Gardenia ... Harry Pizer

Jamie Glover ... New Scanner
Stafford Gordon ... Public Prosecutor
Christopher Hackley ... German Plainclothes Policeman

Garrick Hagon ... Mark Sanna
Richard Howard ... Berndt Meyer
Stephen Hoye ... Tommy Dome
Diana Hunter ... Public Relations Woman

Aharon Ipalé ... Hafez Dalkomoni

Moshe Ivgy ... Yossi Langotsky
Eric Loren ... US Embassy Offical
Deidra Lovell ... Consular Official
Nick Maloney ... BKA Officer
Emma Martin ... Beate Franzki
Bill McCabe ... Watch Controller Ford
Mac McDonald ... Port Authority Policeman
Alan Meadows ... German Plainclothes Policeman
Avi Nassa ... Palestinian Activist
Sean Pertwee ... Oliver Koch
Paula Raflo ... Kennel Manageress
Martyn Read ... X Ray Scanner
Andrew Robertson ... ATC Alan Topp

William Roberts ... Capt. Jim McQuarrie
Rivca Rubin ... Alert Employee

Mozaffar Shafeie ... Ali Akbar Mohteshemi
Richard D. Sharp ... TV Anchorman
John Shrapnel ... BKA Police Chief

Christopher Simon ... Young Palestinian

Colin Stinton ... Raymond Smith
Timothy West ... Col. Wilfred Wood
Michael Wincott ... Ulrich Weber
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Why Lockerbie? (UK) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
Canada:86 min (Ontario)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Malta more
Company:
Granada Television more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Pan Am Flight 103 taking-off from Heathrow shows a Boeing 747SP, recognizable by its very short fuselage, when all the other scenes accurately show a Boeing 747-100. more
Quotes:
[on the telephone, hands-free mode]
Yossi Langotsky: Am I speaking to the chairman of Pan Am?
C. Edward Acker: This is Acker.
Yossi Langotsky: I've just put a bomb onto one of your planes of a trans-Atlantic flight out of Europe.
[picks up telephone]
C. Edward Acker: This is not possible! Who is it?
Yossi Langotsky: It's Yossi Langotsky. You'll be relieved to hear it's a dummy... this time.
C. Edward Acker: Pulling stunts like this... is not the way I expect you to check out the security on this airline, Langotsky.
Yossi Langotsky: Mr. Acker, in my view, it's only the will of providence that has saved your airline from terorrists attacks.
C. Edward Acker: I don't want this to happen again. Do you understand me?
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4 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
A decent portrayal but lacks some emotion!, 1 September 2003
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Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States

As somebody who takes interest in PAn Am 103's tragedy, I find this film plays around the publicly known events. If I had any say, I would have tried to focus on the human emotions of those who lost their relatives and friends in this crash. The film chronicles the events preceding the tragedy. I wished they would have made a conscious effort on examining the humans lost on 103 like on 9-11. Pan Am 103 was really the beginning of a war on terrorism for us. Pan Am 103 was our first warning which we ignored foolishly. If we had paid more attention to the events preceding the tragedy, we could have prevented 9-11. Pan Am 103 did not crash against a building but a small street in Lockerbie, Scotland. The residents there have never recovered emotionally neither have the families of Pan Am 103. 15 years later, we're still asking what happened. I have to say it's first rate casting with Timothy West, Peter Boyle, and others. It seems terrible that nobody paid close attention and we all have to ask why we didn't pay any close attention now. It's still a good film about the tragedy. I think they should have showed the names of those lost on the darkest day of the year.

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