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Alerte à la bombe

Original title: Skyjacked
  • 1972
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  • 1h 41m
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5.7/10
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Alerte à la bombe (1972)
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
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A Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707, forcing the crew to fly to Russia amidst tensions and stereotypes of the early 1970s.A Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707, forcing the crew to fly to Russia amidst tensions and stereotypes of the early 1970s.A Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707, forcing the crew to fly to Russia amidst tensions and stereotypes of the early 1970s.

  • Director
    • John Guillermin
  • Writers
    • Stanley R. Greenberg
    • Edwin Corley
  • Stars
    • Charlton Heston
    • James Brolin
    • Yvette Mimieux
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    • Director
      • John Guillermin
    • Writers
      • Stanley R. Greenberg
      • Edwin Corley
    • Stars
      • Charlton Heston
      • James Brolin
      • Yvette Mimieux
    • 58User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Charlton Heston
    Charlton Heston
    • Henry O'Hara
    James Brolin
    James Brolin
    • Jerome K. Weber
    Yvette Mimieux
    Yvette Mimieux
    • Angela Thacher
    Claude Akins
    Claude Akins
    • Sgt. Ben Puzo
    Jeanne Crain
    Jeanne Crain
    • Mrs. Clara Shaw
    Susan Dey
    Susan Dey
    • Elly Brewster
    Roosevelt Grier
    Roosevelt Grier
    • Gary Brown
    Mariette Hartley
    Mariette Hartley
    • Harriet Stevens
    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    • Senator Arne Lindner
    Ken Swofford
    Ken Swofford
    • John Bimonte
    Leslie Uggams
    Leslie Uggams
    • Lovejoy Wells
    Ross Elliott
    Ross Elliott
    • Harold Shaw
    Nicholas Hammond
    Nicholas Hammond
    • Peter Lindner
    Mike Henry
    Mike Henry
    • Sam Allen
    Jayson Kane
    • William Reading
    • (as Jayson William Kane)
    Toni Clayton
    • Jane Burke
    John Hillerman
    John Hillerman
    • Walter Brandt
    Kelley Miles
    Kelley Miles
    • Hazel Martin
    • Director
      • John Guillermin
    • Writers
      • Stanley R. Greenberg
      • Edwin Corley
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    6ma-cortes

    Exciting and amusing but full clichés and stereotypes with a strong performance by Heston

    The movie is another jetliner epic with tough hero Charlton Heston . A Boeing commercial airline (the 'Global Airways' plane used in the movie was a World Airways Boeing 707 , N374WA) is hijacked . Commandant Charlton Heston along with crew and flight attendant (Ivette Mimieux ) taking on a dangerous bomber . The film is detailing hectic flighty hijacked by a dangerous terrorist and passengers' relationship . All clichéd and stock characters with regurgitation of all usual stereotypical situations from disaster films such as the musician , the pregnant girl (Mariette Hartley) , a nervous , crazed vet Vietnam (James Brolin), the senator (Walter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond). Taking place on fateful storm and freeze skies and the airplane heading to Russia . If you've seen the original ¨ Airport ¨ (George Seaton ) , the daddy of them all , you've seen them all , in fact , the terrorist character is likeness to Airport's Van Heflin.

    The picture contains thriller , suspense , drama , moderated tension and is quite entertaining although with some flaws and gaps . Filmed at the height of the disaster genre from the 7os , this entry in the spectacular series profits of a strong acting by Charlton Heston , bringing conviction to character , he also starred a similar role at ¨ Airport 1975 ¨ (Jack Smight) . Look quickly to Claude Akins, John Hillerman , Jeanne Crain , among others , though doesn't appear the classic character Patroni (George Kennedy) , a saga usual . The motion picture was professionally directed by John Guillermin , habitual of disaster films (Towering inferno, King Kong , Kong lives) and airplane movies (Blue Max ) . The film is classified ¨parents guide¨ for a certain violence . It's an inoffensive diversion but is sometimes tediously unspooled . The film will appeal to Charlton Heston fans and disaster genre enthusiasts.
    6blanche-2

    a 1972 airline film

    If only all we had to fear today were hijackers.

    As any film about an airplane made before 9/11, Skyjacked is badly dated but it's a real kick.

    The plane wasn't full, first class was nearly empty - when was the last time anyone saw that? People entered and left the cockpit as though it was the Holiday Inn.

    There was both a bomb and gun on board inside a carry-on satchel.

    None of the carry-on baggage was screened.

    People were smoking.

    Roosevelt Grier could fit in a seat.

    The story itself concerns a soldier from Crazytown (James Brolin) who hijacks the plane to take him to Moscow where he expects some sort of decoration for his service. Charlton Heston is the pilot. There are three people in the cockpit, which is a practice I recommend for all airlines now that a pilot left one cockpit and couldn't get back in.

    Yvette Mimeux and Leslie Uggams are two of the flight attendants; Mimeux had a hot romance with the married pilot and is now engaged to the copilot.

    Mariette Hartley plays a woman about to give birth.

    Susan Dey is a hippie and a good suspect for leaving lipstick notes on the bathroom mirror.

    It's a typical airplane story. There were some very exciting moments, particularly when the plane attempted to land in Alaska. There were some dumb moments: why Heston had to suggest the passengers deplane -- he was in the cockpit with James Brolin - the flight attendants, one would have thought, could have come up with that themselves. He also had to tell Yvette Mimiuex in code to deploy the chute and get the passengers out. Again, they couldn't have figured that out? Some parts of this were quite entertaining, and it's certainly worth seeing to look at old airline procedures. Flying was a lot simpler. And I wonder if it's any safer now.

    Lots of familiar TV faces from the '70s and '80s besides those mentioned: Nicholas Hammond, who is still working, the late Claude Akins, Ken Swofford, now retired; the late Ross Elliott, Newhart's John Fiedler, and Magnum's John Hillerman, now retired. And two stars of the classic era of films: Walter Pidgeon, 75 then, and Jeanne Crain in her last film. If anyone is wondering, Jeanne Crain at 47 was still beautiful.
    gordywright

    A lot better than you might think

    I was really surprised by this film, one, I had never actually seen it, and two, it was well worth seeing.

    I did, however, find it very frustrating. Not through the plot or the acting or anything like that, but it was full of actors and actresses, whose faces were familiar to me, I spent about half the film wondering who had been in what, I couldnt wait to get on here and find out.

    Charlton Heston was his always accomplished self, no more and no less, and he is always very good. James Brolin played a military section 8 well indeed, or at least I assume that is a way in which a section 8 would be, not like Klinger in M*A*S*H!

    All together a very good film, well worth watching, and in truth probably suffered unfairly against the films of the day, The Godfather and The French Connection to name but two.

    Not necessarily one for the collection, but worth seeing all the same.
    5Pipesofpeace

    Heston takes wing in minor disaster flick

    Had this been made by Universal Studios instead of MGM, they might well have called it AIRPORT '72, so closely does it follow the template of that popular disaster movie series; it even casts Charlton Heston as a pilot two years prior to his playing a similar role in AIRPORT 1975. The film introduces us to the personal lives of several passengers, including a U.S. Senator (Walter Pidgeon), a jazz cellist (football legend Roosevelt Grier), a smart-mouthed teenage girl (Susan Dey from The Partridge Family), and a very pregnant lady (Mariette Hartley, who used to do those cute Polaroid commercials with James Garner)who probably shouldn't be flying to begin with at this late stage. There's also an unusually twitchy Vietnam vet on board (hammily played by James Brolin) which should remove all doubt as to who is leaving scary notes on the bathroom mirror and threatening to blow up the plane if his demand to be flown to Moscow isn't met. Yvette Mimieux and Leslie Uggams appear as two of the best-looking flight attendants in aviation history (they were called stewardesses back then, but then again that was a time when you could also smoke openly on a commercial airplane.) TV's Claude Akins shows up in the control tower, essentially playing George Kennedy. This sounds pretty ridiculous, and in some ways it is, but director John Guillermin (The Blue Max, The Towering Inferno) keeps up a brisk pace and makes this quite watchable, for what it is.
    6pmtelefon

    Worth the watch

    "Skyjacked" is an okay, if somewhat dated, watch. It's not much of a whodunnit because anyone who is paying attention can figure out who the villain is in about ten minutes. That doesn't really matter because the movie is pretty suspenseful most of the way through. "Skyjacked" does run out of gas towards the end but it's not a deal breaker. The movie is a little dated. It has a few too many flashbacks but that was not uncommon is the early 1970s. The cover of the DVD of "Skyjacked" that I own tried selling the movie as a "camp classic". This movie may be a little corny at times but it is not campy. For the most part, "Skyjacked" is a well made, exciting movie.

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    • Trivia
      Final film of Jeanne Crain, who retired from acting after this project.
    • Goofs
      Almost all of the vehicles at the site that is supposed to be Moscow Airport are American made.
    • Quotes

      Sgt. Ben Puzo: [over the radio with Captain O'Hara, as he guides the jet into Anchorage] Very nice, Captain... If you ever want to earn an honest living, I think I can find you a home in the Air Force, flying cargo. Watch that heading...

    • Alternate versions
      When originally released theatrically in the UK, the BBFC made cuts to secure a 'A' rating. All cuts were waived in 1986 when the film was granted a 'PG' certificate for home video.
    • Connections
      Edited into Dr. Shrinker (1976)

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    • Release date
      • November 15, 1973 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Vuelo 502 en peligro
    • Filming locations
      • Mojave Airport - 1434 Flightline Street, Mojave, California, USA(Stand-in for Moscow Airport)
    • Production company
      • Walter Seltzer Productions
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    • Budget
      • $1,700,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 41m(101 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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