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Air America
Film / 1990

Air America

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
ActionAdventureComedyDrama

★ 5.8/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Mel GibsonGene Ryack Robert Downey Jr.Billy Covington Nancy TravisCorinne Landreaux Ken JenkinsMajor Donald Lemond David Marshall GrantRob Diehl Lane SmithSenator Davenport Art LaFleurJack Neely Ned EisenbergPirelli Marshall BellO.V. David BoweSaunders Burt KwoukGeneral Lu Soong Tim ThomersonBabo
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Harvey JasonNino Natta NantatantiGene's Daughter Purin PanichpanGene's Son Yanee TramothGene's Brother-in-law Ernie LivelyTruck Driver Burke ByrnesRecruiter Michael DudikoffGeneral Lee (uncredited) Sinjai PlengpanichMay Ling Wasan UttamayothinNightclub Singer

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