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Movie
Skyjacked
Synopsis
Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin, is subsequently subdued, the crew must contend with a hidden time bomb. The film is graced with a who's who of MGM contractees past and present, including Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon and Mike Henry. A flashback sequence contains one of the first examples of an American film coming to grips with how rudely our Vietnam veterans were ignored upon returning home; alas, this compassion quickly degenerates into the odious "crazed Vietnam vet" cliche. Footnote: The first network showing of Skyjacked was boycotted by TV stations owned by the Storer Corporation, which had a hard and fast rule against screening any film concerning a hijacked plane.
Cast
- Charlton Heston
- Yvette Mimieux
- James Brolin
- Claude Akins
- Jeanne Crain
- Susan Dey
- Craig Shreeve
- Toni Clayton
- Dan White
- Forrest Wood
- Maureen Connell
- Jack Denbo
- Joe Canutt
- Ross Elliott
- Roy Engel
- Jayson Kane
- Jenifer Shaw
- John Fiedler
- Nicholas Hammond
- John Hillerman
- Kelley Miles
- Wesley Lau
- William Martel
- Leslie Uggams
- Ken Swofford
- Lorna Thayer
- Mariette Hartley
- Walter Pidgeon
- Rosey Grier
- Mike Henry
- Ralph Swartz
- Charles R. Pierce
- Vince Cresciman
- Stanley R. Greenberg
- Harry Stradling Jr.
- Harry W. Tetrick
- David Harper
- Edward C. Carfagno
- Jack Bear
- Robert Swink
- Siegfried H. Geike