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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, 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.
Language
Budget$35,000,000
Revenue $57,661,269
English,
Budget$35,000,000
Revenue $57,661,269
Keywords
vietnam war
central intelligence agency (cia)
airplane
drug smuggling
refugee camp
pilot
laos
drugs
1960s
Casts
Mel Gibson
Gene Ryack
Robert Downey Jr.
Billy Covington
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
O.V.
David Bowe
Saunders
Burt Kwouk
General Lu Soong
Tim Thomerson
Babo
Harvey Jason
Nino
Natta Nantatanti
Gene's Daughter
Purin Panichpan
Gene's Son
Yanee Tramoth
Gene's Brother-in-law
Ernie Lively
Truck Driver
Burke Byrnes
Recruiter
Michael Dudikoff
General Lee (uncredited)
Sinjai Plengpanich
May Ling
Wasan Uttamayothin
Nightclub Singer
Crews
Christopher Robbins
Novel
Daniel Melnick
Producer
Lois Freeman-Fox
Editor
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
John Bloom
Editor
Richard Rush
Screenplay
Allan Cameron
Production Design
John Eskow
Screenplay
Mario Kassar
Executive Producer
Michael J. Kagan
Line Producer
Charles Gross
Original Music Composer
Roger Deakins
Director of Photography
Jane Jenkins
Casting
Andrew G. Vajna
Executive Producer
Jon Jashni
Producer
Janet Hirshenson
Casting
Billy D. Lucas
Stunts
Simon Kaye
Sound Mixer
Steve Spence
Art Direction
Dennis Bosher
Assistant Art Director
Per Hallberg
Assistant Sound Editor
Albert M. Shapiro
First Assistant Director
Allen Shapiro
Co-Producer
Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat
Assistant Art Director
Becky Mancuso-Winding
Music Supervisor
John Mollo
Costume Design
Gerry Levy
Unit Production Manager
Vic Armstrong
Stunt Coordinator
Tony Reading
Art Direction
Robert Toft
Video Assist Operator
Mark O'Kane
Steadicam Operator
Noori Dehnahi
Post Production Coordinator
Avram D. Gold
ADR Editor
Carl Schmidt
Armorer
Lon Bender
Supervising Sound Editor
Lisa Miller
Assistant Sound Editor
John T. Reitz
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Tim Sexton
Music Supervisor
John Eskow
Co-Producer
Mike Proudfoot
Camera Operator
Angela Wharton
Script Supervisor
Tommy Staples
Boom Operator
Sukey Fontelieu
Foley Supervisor
Gordon Hayman
Camera Operator
Devon Heffley Curry
Supervising ADR Editor
Joseph A. Mayer
ADR Editor
Fred Carter
Set Decoration
Paul Hodgson
Associate Editor
Dan O'Connell
Foley Artist
Bob Beher
Assistant Sound Editor
Curtis Roush
Supervising Music Editor
John Higgins
Gaffer
Bob Kocourek
Production Accountant
Brian Ralph
Negative Cutter
Artist W. Robinson
Second Assistant Director
George Gibbs
Special Effects Supervisor
Gregg Rudloff
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
William Henry
First Assistant Editor
Lois Burwell
Makeup Supervisor
David E. Campbell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Elaine Bowerbank
Hair Supervisor
Kevin Edland
Best Boy Electric
Rob Harris
Unit Publicist
Phil Hetos
Color Timer
Thom 'Coach' Ehle
Dolby Consultant
Alicia Stevenson
Foley Artist
Patsy de Lord
Production Coordinator
Peter Robb-King
Key Makeup Artist
Tricia Cameron
Hairstylist
Barbara Rutter
Assistant Costume Designer
Frank Connor
Still Photographer
Chere Rae
Stunts
Steven Lambert
Stunts
Donna Evans
Stunts
Dana Dru Evenson
Stunts
Doug Coleman
Stunts
John Cenatiempo
Stunts
Fraser Taggart
Aerial Camera
Nikki Williams
Clapper Loader
Debbie Lynn Ross
Stunts
Callum McDougall
Second Assistant Director
Backdrops & Posters
