Details

Release year: 1990

Storyline

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.

Top credits

Directors

Roger Spottiswoode

Writers

Cast

Mel Gibson — Gene
Robert Downey Jr. — Billy
Nancy Travis — Corinne Landreaux
Ken Jenkins — Major Donald Lemond

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Did you know

• 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. despised his experience making this film in Bangkok, Thailand, and has vowed never to return to the country ever again for as long as he lives.