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wanted the filmmakers to use a fictional soda rather than show opium being refined at their abandoned factory. Therefore, the producers added a line about wondering if Pepsi knew what was going on. After previewing the film, six months after production, Gibson and other principals were called back to
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In the air, Gene and Billy hatch a scheme to sell the aircraft to recoup Gene's money. In the postscript of the closing credits, it is revealed that General Soong makes it to America eventually and gets his dream of owning and operating a Holiday Inn, that Gene wins a lottery in Thailand in 1975, and
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Billy and Gene are shot down after a short time in the air and captured by a tribe. Gene strikes a deal to supply them with better weapons. At Gene's house, Billy is surprised to discover that Gene has a wife and children. Disillusioned with U.S. actions in Laos, Gene convinces Billy to quit his job,
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Gene, on his way to make his final weapons delivery, rescues Billy. They respond to a distress call from a refugee camp caught in crossfire. The official in charge of the camp refuses to leave without the refugees. Gene reluctantly dumps the weapons to make room for the refugees, with much pressure
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Gene finds a buyer for his arsenal, allowing him to quit Air America and take his family out of Laos. Billy accepts one more flight, taking flour to a refugee camp when he is instructed to divert for "routine inspection." Suspecting a setup, Billy inspects the cargo and finds heroin. He crash-lands
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received abuse for "dar to say the unsayable, and commits the added offense of joking about it ... It injects into mass culture truth on a matter that official America has been lying about for three decades, namely the confluence between U.S. covert operations and criminality, whether in Laos,
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Davenport is losing patience and demands to know who is smuggling heroin. Learning that Jack has been killed, Lemond and Diehl claim he was the ring leader behind the drug trafficking. Billy blows up the heroin factory, but guards see him running away. Davenport demands more concrete evidence.
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Senator Davenport arrives to investigate rumors that Air America is transporting drugs for Laotian forces. Major Lemond and Rob Diehl, CIA leaders of Air America, show the Senator around Laos to prevent him discovering that the rumors are true. Unfortunately, Davenport loses great respect from
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Davenport recognizes the nature of the setup and threatens to reveal Lemond and Diehl's operation to Washington. Major Lemond in return silences Senator Davenport by daring him to say what he thinks he saw in Laos but reveals that his own political connections involving a friendship with the
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In Laos, he is introduced to Air America's unorthodox pilots and aircraft, being taken under the wing of pilot Gene Ryack, who uses official flights to buy black market weapons for his private cache. His retirement plan is to make enough money to afford quitting his Air America job.
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worked as an aviation film. "... on a small positive some of the flying stunts, and there are plenty of them, are pretty spectacular. In a movie which almost floats these moments of aeronautic acrobats (they) give an injection of adrenalin although by no means enough to save it."
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of General Soong arrives at the crash site and his soldiers load up with the opium from the crashed plane, but intentionally leave Billy and Jack behind while local Communist forces are moving in. Gene and another pilot rescue them; Billy boards Gene's helicopter.
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was embroiled in controversy over its treatment of the "secret CIA airline service." After the Persian Gulf War began on January 15, 1991, the film was withdrawn from distribution in over 100 cinemas throughout Germany.
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In late 1969, helicopter pilot Billy Covington has his pilot's license suspended for breaking safety regulations. His skills, bravery and disregard for the law are noticed by a government agent, who offers him a job in
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General Soong during their first meeting at the airport when mistaking him to be a local luggage-carrying valet. Soong holds this over Davenport's head for the remainder of his visit.
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cargo aircraft, Billy and Jack Neely are shot down, but Billy manages to crash-land the C-123 at a former World War II Japanese airstrip. The
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reports a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by
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was attached to play the older pilot, Gene Ryack, and the younger flier Billy Covington was at different times to be played by
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increased to $ 35 million as the production involved a 500-member crew shooting in 49 different locations between
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on the same airstrip where he crashed earlier and uses the wreckage of the previous crash to hide the aircraft.
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noted: "... the comedy adventure doesn't feature any real heroes of that war, men like the Hmong pilot
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Some criticism was levelled at the inaccuracies prevalent in the production. The review of
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that Billy is deported from Thailand for fixing the same lottery in order for Gene to win.
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Whispering Death, "Tuag Nco Ntsoov": Our Journey with the Hmong in the Secret War for Laos
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Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
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after Connery and Costner became too expensive. Melnick hired screenwriter
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tried to develop the film in 1985, as the first comedy about Vietnam.
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received mostly negative reviews from critics. The film review in
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bought the project as Rush wrote a script and found locations.
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gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.
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Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson attending the film's 1990
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from Billy, and blows up their cache to cover the escape.
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The publicity for the film, advertised as a lighthearted
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President would only ruin Davenport's political career.
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Index


Roger Spottiswoode
John Eskow
Richard Rush
Air America
Christopher Robbins
Daniel Melnick
Mario Kassar
Mel Gibson
Robert Downey Jr.
Nancy Travis
David Marshall Grant
Lane Smith
Roger Deakins
John Bloom
Charles Gross
Carolco Pictures
Tri-Star Pictures
action comedy film
Roger Spottiswoode
Mel Gibson
Robert Downey Jr.
Air America
Laos
Vietnam War
heroin
Christopher Robbins
1979 non-fiction book
CIA
Cambodia

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