
Overview
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Details
- Director
- Roger Spottiswoode
- Writer
- John Eskow
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $35,000,000
Cast
Art LaFleur
David Bowe
David Marshall Grant
Ken Jenkins
Lane Smith
Marshall Bell
Mel Gibson
Nancy Travis
Ned Eisenberg
Robert Downey Jr.
Keywords
1960s
airplane
central intelligence agency (cia)
drug smuggling
drugs
laos
pilot
refugee camp
vietnam war
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