A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Practical Effects
Adorable miniature Concorde getting abused for your entertainment
Direction
Deodato's giallo instincts crashing into disaster formula = glorious mess
Acting
Joseph Cotten collecting paycheck, looking haunted by better films
Director
Ruggero Deodato
James Franciscus
Moses Brody
Mimsy Farmer
Jean Beneyton
Venantino Venantini
Forsythe
Joseph Cotten
Milland
Van Johnson
Captain Scott
Edmund Purdom
Danker
Francesco Carnelutti
Co-Pilot - 2nd Concorde
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
John - Forsythe's Henchman
Aldo Barberito
Priest - 2nd Concorde
Roberto Santi
Navigator - 2nd Concorde
Maria D'Incoronato
Woman Passenger with Bearded Father - 2nd Concorde
Renzo Marignano
Martinez - Milland's Advisor
Renato Cortesi
Journalist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Deodato made this between Cannibal Holocaust and Cut and Run, proving he could ruin ANY genre. The same year, Airport '79: The Concorde also crashed a Concorde — 1979 was ROUGH for supersonic travel on screen.
This captures peak 1970s Concorde obsession: the plane symbolized elite futurism that environmentalists and economists were already questioning. The film treats it like a doomed celebrity.
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