𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙚𝙡 𝙂𝙞𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙣 & 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝘿𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙅𝙧. A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict. 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 into it, 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.
Stars Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis & many other fine actors.
Movie Trivia
The sequence where Robert Downey, Jr. is seen hanging from a rope flying across the skies above Thailand, including a Buddhist temple, was done for real, with Downey performing the stunt himself after director Roger Spottiswoode had rejected doing it using such alternative techniques as blue screen or back projection.
According to Wikipedia, "PepsiCo 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."
Robert Downey, Jr. did the film for two reasons, for the big paycheck and because he wanted to work with Mel Gibson, whom he had seen in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) the previous year.
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