A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He plans to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. However, Secret Service agents hijack the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde. Written by Leigh Roche
Acting
Cliff Robertson playing evil with Shakespearean commitment to nonsense
Practical Effects
Concorde sets that look like someone's uncle built them in a garage
Director
Fred Olen Ray
Brian Bosworth
Captain Jack Tyree
Shannon Whirry
Shannon Carpenter
Michael Dorn
Rogers
Cliff Robertson
Vice President Pike
Bruce Weitz
Phil Jefferson
Andrew Stevens
Commander Stevens
Robert Pine
Captain Roman
David Hedison
Stuart Davis
Jennifer Hammon
Gina Kendall
John Putch
Tim Mandell
Charles Cyphers
Harry Olson
Sondra Currie
Courtney Davis
Lance Guest
Keith Dorman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fred Olen Ray shot this in 12 days with a budget that wouldn't cover one Fast & Furious tire. The Concorde interior is famously a reused set from his other films.
Released four months before 9/11, this casual 'hijacked plane as action setpiece' premise hit different immediately after. The film basically vanished into discount bins of history.
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