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Concorde Affaire '79

  • 1979
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
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Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
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A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

  • Director
    • Ruggero Deodato
  • Writers
    • Alberto Fioretti
    • Renzo Genta
    • Ernesto Gastaldi
  • Stars
    • James Franciscus
    • Mimsy Farmer
    • Venantino Venantini
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    599
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ruggero Deodato
    • Writers
      • Alberto Fioretti
      • Renzo Genta
      • Ernesto Gastaldi
    • Stars
      • James Franciscus
      • Mimsy Farmer
      • Venantino Venantini
    • 11User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Van Johnson and Francesco Carnelutti in Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
    Mimsy Farmer and James Franciscus in Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
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    Mimsy Farmer and James Franciscus in Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
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    James Franciscus
    James Franciscus
    • Moses Brody
    Mimsy Farmer
    Mimsy Farmer
    • Jean Beneyton
    Venantino Venantini
    Venantino Venantini
    • Forsythe
    Fiamma Maglione
    • Nicole Brody
    • (as Mag Fleming)
    Edmund Purdom
    Edmund Purdom
    • Danker
    Francisco Charles
    • George
    • (as 'Francisco' Charles)
    Francesco Carnelutti
    Francesco Carnelutti
    • Co-Pilot - 2nd Concorde
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    • John - Forsythe's Henchman
    Aldo Barberito
    • Priest - 2nd Concorde
    Roberto Santi
    • Navigator - Second Concorde
    Maria D'Incoronato
    • Woman Passenger with Bearded Father - 2nd Concorde
    Renzo Marignano
    • Martinez - Milland's Advisor
    Renato Cortesi
    • Journalist
    Giovanni Battista Felici
    Maria D'Alessandro
    • Hostess
    Cosimo Milone
    Alessandra Stordy
    • Stewardess - 2nd Concorde
    Enrico Papa
    • Charlie - Panicking Passenger
    • Director
      • Ruggero Deodato
    • Writers
      • Alberto Fioretti
      • Renzo Genta
      • Ernesto Gastaldi
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      Released on the same year as The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), which also featured Robert Kerman as an air traffic controller.
    • Quotes

      Danker: Operation? The flight from Rio will have 100 persons on board. And you call this an operation? Why don't you call it by its real name?

      Milland: You wanna hear its real name? Okay, Danker, I'll spell it for you: W-A-R, war.

      Milland: Since time immemorial, nations have been sacrificing hundreds of millions of human lives to protect their "interests". Well, we too, are a nation; a multi-national state. Our citizens? Our workers, employees, technicians and shareholders. The shareholders, gentlemen! And it is our responsibility to protect their interests which at the moment are being threatened by the Concorde.

      Milland: The Concorde must vanish!

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      Nydia
      Written by Charles Denis Frantz

      Arranged by Marius Cultier

    User reviews11

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    8/10
    a fun action/drama flick with amusing cast and special effects
    I finally managed to track down copy of this CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79 cash-in directed by the the violence-obsessed Ruggero Deodato. I'm surprised this flick doesn't come up in discussion more often since it does have a pretty fantastic cast and crew and a pretty good storyline too.

    Joseph Cotten and Edmund Purdom are big New York executives who are informed that the Concorde has failed numerous safety checks, yet they have them fly anyway. Right away of course, a Concorde crashes into the Carribbean Sea leaving a stewardess (Mimsy Farmer) as the only survivor. Of course she is first picked up by some members of an international mob (including Richard Raymond and Venantino Venantini). They demand a million dollars ransom for the girl to the hotshot executives, who respond by unleashing their hit men on everyone who knows about the crash in a vain attempt to cover it up. Enter James Franciscus as the heroic journalist who steps in and rescues the stewardess from the mobsters and barely gets her to the authorities in time to learn a second Concorde (piloted by Van Johnson!) is experiencing similar trouble and may also crash if she doesn't remember what caused her flight trouble. Turns out the mobsters were behind the whole thing and that they're all in a little over their heads.

    This oddity certainly doesn't pack the best special effects I've seen (the Concorde footage is all either stock footage or cheesy little model airplanes), CONCORDE AFFAIR 79 still manages to be a lot of fun. There's murder, mobsters, & mayhem, and an underwater scubadiver fight or two. The cast is top notch, with even Robert Kerman dropping by as an air traffic controller who has to talk Mimsy Farmer to her senses at the end. Genre veterans may also recognise that same black guy from ZOMBIE and DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D. as one of the fishermen who rescues farmer and is promptly killed off. The photography, in this case by both Federico Zanni and Gianlorenzo Battaglia is pretty good, but fails to make the Godzilla movie-ish miniatures seem realistic. Stelvio Cipriani's musical score is about exactly usual for his work, yet adding a couple interesting new variations.

    All in all, I think this flick was alright. It's totally rare and impossible to find in a decent quality print, but in my opinion it's well worth the effort tracking down.
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    • Aylmer
    • Dec 19, 2000

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    • Release date
      • March 23, 1979 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • The Concorde Affair
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA(some scenes)
    • Production companies
      • Dania Film
      • National Cinematografica
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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