Air America (1990)


Mel Gibson              Gene
Robert Downey Jr.       Billy
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           OV
David Bowe              Saunders
Burt Kwouk              General Lu Soong
Tim Thomerson           Babo
Harvey Jason            Nino
Sinjai Hongthai         Gene's Wife

Directed by:            Roger Spottiswoode, Garth Craven, Vic Armstrong
Produced by:            Mario Kassar, Andrew Vajna, Daniel Melnick


The story of two American pilots who fly for the CIA's covert airline during the last days of 
the Vietnam war.

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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.

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Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by 
getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to