Last Flight Out

original title:
Last Flight Out
other titles:
Flug in die Freiheit
country / year of production:
USA / 1989
original length:
94 min. , color
premiere:
22 May 1990
genre:
TV-film
based on:
director:
Larry Elikann
film script:
Walter Halsey Davis
producer:
Norman I. Cohen , Richard Cohen
cinematographer:
Laszlo George
editor:
Ronald Roose
composer:
Christopher Young
cast (role):
Eric Bogosian (Larry Rose) , Rosalind Chao (Tra Duong) , Barry Corbin (Capt. Bob Berg) , Richard Crenna (Dan Hood) , James Earl Jones (Al Topping) , Eric Bogosian , Rosalind Chao , Barry Corbin , Richard Crenna , James Earl Jones
more:
plot synopsis:
This film is set a few hours before the Viet Cong took over the city of Saigon the 22. April 1975. The american airline PanAm has to decide, who can be rescued from the invasion into the from americans occupied part of Vietnam with the last commercial flight that will be permitted to leave the city. Americans and Vietnamese struggle to be on board and to escape the thread.
keywords:
escape , based on a true story , air force , behind enemy lines
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
remarks:
Was filmed in Thailand.

The real plane used for the last Pan Am flight out of Saigon was a Boeing 747 and not a Lockheed Tristar.

Was nominated for an "Emmy" in 1990.
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