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Air America * (1990, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 10,625

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1990 film Air America stars Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr as maverick veteran pilot Gene Ryack (Gibson) and cheeky young upstart Billy Covington (Downey Jr), who work together as renegade aviators […]

Dec, 04

Flight Angels ** (1940, Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy Jane Wyman) – Classic Movie Review 10,075

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1940 Flight Angels offers good nostalgia for wartime flying, pre-war in America’s case, and these are the brisk, cheery stewardesses (Jane Wyman, Virginia Bruce) and capable, brave pilots (Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris) […]

Jul, 22

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious ** (1965, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford) – Classic Movie Review 9945

The 1965 US-German co-production black and white comedy Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious is based on actor Robert Shaw’s novel The Hiding and is produced and directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of the […]

Jun, 21

SOS Pacific ** (1959, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eddie Constantine, Eva Bartok) – Classic Movie Review 9853

It is SOS Pacific when those still alive after an aircraft smashes on to a Pacific tropical island discover to their horror that an atom bomb is due to be detonated in their close proximity. […]

Jun, 01

Forever Young ** (1992, Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood) – Classic Movie Review 9405

Director Steve Miner’s 1992 sci-fi romantic drama Forever Young stars Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood, and is written by Jeffrey Abrams, now better known as J J Abrams. Gibson stars as test […]

Feb, 20

Come Fly with Me ** (1963, Dolores Hart, Hugh O’Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 9318

Director Henry Levin 1962 grounded Come Fly with Me tells the romantic tale of three empty-headed air hostesses (Dolores Hart as Donna Stuart, Pamela Tiffin as Carol Brewster and Lois Nettleton as ‘Bergie’ Bergstrom) looking […]

Jan, 29

Slipstream *** (1989, Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton, Kitty Aldridge, Eleanor David, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 9008

Director Steven M Lisberger’s British shot 1989 science-fiction adventure Slipstream stars Mark Hamill as bearded bounty hunter Will Tasker, who chases murderous android fugitive Byron (Bob Peck), in Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz’s thoughtful sci-fi […]

Oct, 22

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