Air America

• 5.808 Action
• 1990-08-10
• 112 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Mel Gibson (Gene Ryack) Robert Downey Jr. (Billy Covington) Nancy Travis (Corinne Landreaux) Ken Jenkins (Major Donald Lemond) David Marshall Grant (Rob Diehl) Lane Smith (Senator Davenport) Art LaFleur (Jack Neely) Ned Eisenberg (Pirelli) Marshall Bell (O.V.) David Bowe (Saunders)

Director:

Roger Spottiswoode

Writer:

Richard Rush John Eskow