Movie
Skyjacked
Overview
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
Details
- Release date
- 1972-05-24
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Walter Seltzer Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Charlton Heston as Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara
- Yvette Mimieux as Angela Thacher
- James Brolin as Jerome K. Weber
- Claude Akins as Sgt. Ben Puzo
- Jeanne Crain as Mrs. Clara Shaw
- Susan Dey as Elly Brewster
- Rosey Grier as Gary Brown
- Mariette Hartley as Harriet Stevens
- Walter Pidgeon as Sen. Arne Lindner
- Ken Swofford as John Bimonte
- Leslie Uggams as Lovejoy Wells
- Ross Elliott as Harold Shaw
Crew
- John Guillermin - Director
- Stanley R. Greenberg - Screenplay
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