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Skyjacked (1972)
Director: John Guillermin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A routine Airport-style thriller, with Heston as the pilot whose nerves are battered when the 707 he's flying from LA to Minneapolis is discovered to have a bomb on board, ready to explode unless he agrees to head for Moscow. The skyjacker is a disgruntled Vietnam veteran (Brolin), but the film is much too busy with its disaster movie routine (pregnant lady giving birth, and so forth) to make anything of this. Only a highly professional cast alleviates the general predictability and tedium.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: John Guillermin
Producer: Walter Seltzer
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Roosevelt Grier, Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Uggams, Mariette Hartley, Mike Henry full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 101 mins
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