Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Mel Gibson | Gene | |
Robert Downey Jr. | Billy | |
Nancy Travis | Corinne Landreaux | |
Ken Jenkins | Major Donald Lemond | |
David Marshall Grant | Rob Diehl | |
Lane Smith | Senator Davenport | |
Art Lafleur | Jack Neely | |
Ned Eisenberg | Pirelli | |
Marshall Bell | O.V. | |
David Bowe | Saunders | |
Burt Kwouk | General Lu Soong | |
Tim Thomerson | Babo | |
Harvey Jason | Nino | |
Sinjai Plengpanich | Gene's Wife | |
Natta Nantatanti | Gene's Daughter | |
Purin Panichpan | Gene's Son | |
Yanee Tramoth | Gene's Brother-in-Law | |
Chanarona Suwanpa | Kwahn | |
Chet Vimol | Tribal Warrior | |
Wasun Uttamayodhin | Nightclub Singer | |
Meesak Nakarat | Nightclub Singer | |
Ernie Lively | Truck Driver | |
Burke Byrnes | Recruiter | |
Greg Kean | D.J. | |
Roger Welty | Ambassador |
Director | Roger Spottiswoode | |
Writer | Christopher Robbins, John Eskow, Richard Rush | |
Producer | John Eskow, Michael J. Kagan, Mario Kassar, Daniel Melnick, Allen Shapiro, Andrew G. Vajna | |
Musician | Charles Gross | |
Photography | Roger Deakins |