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Global Airways Flight 502 departs Oakland for Minneapolis carrying an ensemble cast of passengers. Shortly into the trip, a lipstick-scrawled warning is discovered in a first-class bathroom mirror, claiming there is a bomb on board and demanding the plane divert to Anchorage to avoid deadly decompression. Captain Hank O’Hara (Charlton Heston) has his flight attendants and co-pilot (Yvette Mimieux and Sam Allen) look for the perpetrator, while a jazz cellist suspects the erratic, jittery young soldier sitting next to him. I had no idea a highjacking could be so dull. Nothing much happens as the crew scurry around pointing fingers. Cliches abound as the usual plane suspects look conspicuous. There’s even a pregnant woman on board. I think we can see where that is headed. The plot could better be explained like this: A confrontation, then a scuffle that ends when James Brolin slaps someone. Repeat. Brolin does manage to be a little creepy though.
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Having watched 3/4 of the 70’s Airport disaster films, capping them off with their spoof Airplane, I feel like I’ve completed this era of jumbo jet jitter-fests. But seeing as I’m partial to bit of mopping up, I noticed this rarity on my Letterboxd watchlist and couldn’t resist. The trouble is, Skyjacked is so of the blueprint that it will file into my subconscious as nothing of note. This review will likely be my only trigger to know I’ve seen it. It stars Charlton Heston (he also stars in Airport 75) who carries a certain authority, gravitas and possibly arrogance as we observe him casually puffing on a tobacco pipe in the cockpit. Indeed, one of strangest things about Skyjacked…
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Of all the different types of disaster movie, I’ve always found the airplane disaster to be the least interesting, which sucks because they’re also the most plentiful. And they’re all exactly the same: a cast of familiar faces playing thinly-sketched characters who you don’t give a shit about. And also, for some reason, the pilot is always in some complicated relationship with a stewardess (I know, flight attendant. But not in the ’70s). 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚! really parodied these things to perfection and this one follows the exact same formula. But this one is probably the worst of all of them. It’s long, it’s boring, and it’s stupid. The worst part is that the terrorist, whom I won’t give away, goes from…
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If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. There, I’ve said it.
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the most relaxed airplane hijack movie ever made. the third film I’ve seen recently after Telefon and The Manchurian Candidate that has wearing their cold war paranoia on their front lobe.
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Watched in a double feature with The Concorde… Airport ’79, which makes perfect sense since both films are about American planes charting dangerous paths to Moscow, although the route in Skyjacked is specifically the result of a bomb threat. As is par for the course in a 70s disaster film, there are plenty of stars on display: rugged captain Charlton Heston, stalwart flight attendants Yvette Mimieux and Leslie Uggams and a passenger manifest that includes James Brolin, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Roosevelt Grier, Susan Dey and Mariette Hartley. It’s pretty easy to see where the plot points are headed and I have to admit my rating is biased since I’ve never cared for Mr. Heston, but Perry Botkin Jr.’s score (dig that funky theme!) and Robert Swink’s editing maintain a decent amount of suspense as the aircraft speeds towards its treacherous destination. The Films of Yvette Mimieux: Ranked (So Far) Disaster Films: Ranked (So Far)
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Not sure why SKYJACKED is so forgotten and not part of the disaster movie canon. At least it’s a real film, a thriller like ROLLERCOASTER and JUGGERNAUT. Great to see Rosie Grier and Susan Dey. And love how it keeps throwing more crazy elements at you – all the way til the end.
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Viewed on TCM Airport (1970) was released in the spring of 1970. It was a huge hit and it ultimately received ten Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was released in the winter of 1972. It was a huge hit and it ultimately received nine Academy Award nominations. Here begins the “Disaster Movie” trend of the 1970’s. The following years we get, The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), Rollercoaster (1977), Airport ’77 (1977), Avalanche (1978) and finally Airport ’79 (1979). In the same year we got The Poseidon Adventure (1972), there was Skyjacked (1972), released in the summer of 1972, starring Charlton Heston who was the “Disaster Movie” king apparently appearing in three of the nine…
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Somehow in my voracious appetite for disaster films I missed this one. I probably assumed it was a made for TV film. I wouldn’t have been wrong in that assumption as the production value is at that level, but no it was theatrical released in that spot between AIRPORT and AIRPORT 75. Here we get Chuck Heaton as a pilot navigating a bomb threat on his plane, torrential weather and facing down Russian MIGs. As expected he does it with authority and clenched teeth. Watching this I couldn’t help but think that being a pilot in a disaster film is the perfect gig. You just have to sit there and be intense while pulling levers. Heston is the king in…
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There are very few things I like more than a disaster flick with airplanes and/or Charlton Heston.
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A really enjoyable 1970’s disaster thriller that was clearly inspired by the huge success of Airport, this movie boasts a fun cast of familiar faces that adds immensely to its overall entertainment value. Charlton Heston headlines said cast with his usual mighty macho stalwart resolve as the tough captain of a plane that gets hijacked by an unhinged Vietnam veteran. Heston is quite a treat to behold as he grits his teeth and clenches his jaw with the utmost of fierce masculine intensity and unwavering granitic conviction. James Brolin sweats buckets and twitches up a storm as the crazy soldier villain of the piece. Amongst the passengers in jeopardy are senator Walter Pidgeon, foxy hippie Susan Dey, a very pregnant…
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Not a bad 70’s disaster film. It has Charlton Heston as the pilot of a plane and a young James Brolin playing a disgruntled Vietnam veteran who takes over the plane and hijacks it and thinks by flying to Moscow, he will win their hearts and minds so that he can become one of them.
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Leaning into the blossoming disaster craze of the decade, this well-made suspense thriller isn’t as nail-biting as the premise promises, with romanticised flashbacks halting momentum, but the team deliver a handsomely produced picture. 3 / 5 Fast Fact: Director John Guillerman would helm the ultimate disaster movie two years later with ‘The Towering Inferno’.
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Although the movie was alright and did have some good things going for it, Charlton Heston being one of them. I feel that considering the Airport franchise dominated the whole 70s decade, it was kind of overshadowed by that. Can’t even say it was a good Heston classic because he would go on to do Airport 1975, and I feel that was his better plane movie. But it did its job and I was into it so give it watch.
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Ein Flugzeugsentführungsthriller aus meinem Lieblingsjahrzehnt. Aus der Zeit, wo bei jeder Katastrophe auch eine Schwangere dabei sein musste. Und Babies werden gleich in ein sauberes Frotteehandtuch gewickelt geboren. Ist nicht schlecht, aber auch nicht der super spannende Thriller. Ein bisschen Nostalgie spielt da bei mir auch noch rein, weil ich da als Teenager wohl noch begeisterungsfähiger war. 3,1 Sterne.
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Skyjacked is for the people who strongly prefer the second hour of Airport – the part that takes place on the actual plane, or who wished there was little less soap opera in Airport. Skyjacked cuts out the soap opera so much that it’s vague what is going on between the two pilots and the head flight attendant – she used to be married to Charlton Heston, but she couldn’t have kids, so they divorced? And she’s now with the…
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It’s honestly better than anything from Marvel’s Phase 4 so that must mean something.
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Could’ve easily been Airport 75, except for the last half hour which got way too gnarly for that franchise. But not necessarily in a good way.
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An unremarkable thriller set aboard a jetliner. The cast of characters comprise the flight crew: a captain, first officer, copious flighty attendants and passengers that include a pregnant woman, a senator, his son and his son’s girlfriend, and several other stereotypical passengers along with our bad guy a mentally unstable Vietnam War vet. The dialogue is cringe, the acting is meh but at least the soundtrack is decent-ish. The cut scenes following the Captain and the War Vet added nothing except more to the pile of cringe that this film consists of.
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This is a cracker of a film. It has loads of really silly moments but it has a simple premise and it follows it through quite efficiently. It starts as a guess who the hijacker is and the fairly obvious revelation doesn’t spoil the fun. This is a fine example of why Chuck was a proper film star. I hadn’t heard of this film before I started visiting the now slightly forgotten or at least dismissed genre of disaster films…
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The Running Man (2025) brought me here and showed me who the skyjacker was. Would I want to be on a plane where Charlton Heston, the woman he took on a date to a playground, and her current boyfriend who happens to be Buford T. Justice’s idiot son Junior are the flight crew? No. Would I want to be on a plane where Rosey Grier talks to me about jazz and John Hillerman and Piglet are the air traffic controllers? Yes.
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This one was better than I thought it would be. Charlton Heston, as the sirline captan, was a little bit less stiff than normal. The other actors playing supporting roles in this formulaic hijacking-a-plane tale were all good. It was nice to see Walter Pidgeon in a role near the end of his life. Jeanne Crain was here too. It was a hoot to hear Linda Day George saying “damn” after having been the squeaky clean Laurie Partridge. The whole…
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This is the film debut of Rosie Grier and that’s good enough for me. #HestFest2025
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A very odd and very goofy movie. Definitely no “Airport 1975.” But it does have Rosie Grier, so there’s that. James Brolin is almost reaching for Nic Cage levels of subtlety in his performance. All sorts of “That Guy” and “That Gal” actors show up in classic 70s disaster movie form. After recently seeing a couple videos and articles about how kinda shitty a lot of contemporary films look, I’ve been appreciating that even schlock from this era still has…
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Plane-a-thon # 57: Brolin is a bit too crazed but it does spice up the movie: “I had a buddy who had his foot and his leg and his nuts blown off when he — so, don’t fall asleep, Captain.” is a line from Brolin’s character. View my ranked list of Airplane disaster movies here. boxd.it/QxVH2
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Too bad it wasn’t about a boat.
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Brolin is master of The Crazy Eyes. I love how the only passengers that matter are the ones in first class. Even Susan Dey spends her time in the forward lounge. Mariette Hartley is in Economy but has a baby. Great choice to do a tense mid-story sequence.
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I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a relaxed thriller in my whole life. They’re holding dozens of people hostage in this movie, including a US Senator, and yet everyone is just so freaking chill. If it weren’t for the all-star cast (including an intensely glamorous Yvette Mimeiux, Leslie Uggams, and Jeanne Crain in her final film role), the special effects would definitely make you think you’re watching a really special episode of a 1970’s TV show they’re so rudimentary.
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Kind of a disaster of a disaster movie
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Il traumatizzato reduce della Guerra del Vietnam Jerome Weber (James Brolin) dirotta il volo Global Airways 502 minacciando di far esplodere l’aereo se costretto. I suoi piani vengono intralciati dal comandante Henry O’Hara (Charlton Heston), che in più occasioni tenta di ostacolare Weber cercando di risolvere la situazione senza spargimenti di sangue. Il dirottatore, però, si rivela psicologicamente instabile e molto pericoloso. Dal regista de “La Caduta delle Aquile” (1966) e “Il Ponte di Remagen” (1969), il film che precede…
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comfort rewatch. it is certainly no airport (1970); the greatest disaster film ever made, but it does the job and i love it. the thing i love most about the 70s disaster films is the parade of old hollywood stars that signed on to these films. skyjacked has walter pidgeon, yvette mimieux, charlton heston, and most importantly to me, it has jeanne crain in what was her last film she made.
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Skyjacked is perhaps best described as the “other” Charlton Heston airplane movie of the 1970s, and that should tell you everything about its cinematic standing. Whereas the gloriously ludicrous Airport achieved a kind of camp immortality, this one settles for being aggressively ordinary.. The set-up—James Brolin as a deranged Vietnam vet menacing Heston’s all-American pilot—is straight from the bargain bin of disaster cinema. What should play as pulpy spectacle is instead handled with the flatness of a procedural, the tension…
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A really enjoyable 1970’s disaster thriller that was clearly inspired by the huge success of Airport, this movie boasts a fun cast of familiar faces that adds immensely to its overall entertainment value. Charlton Heston headlines said cast with his usual mighty macho stalwart resolve as the tough captain of a plane that gets hijacked by an unhinged Vietnam veteran. Heston is quite a treat to behold as he grits his teeth and clenches his jaw with the utmost of…
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It’s a mostly unremarkable disaster flick from the 70s. You know what you’re getting. Christian Bale has to be related to James Brolin. It can’t be a coincidence.
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It’s dumb, but it’s the best kind of dumb.
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I’m currently in a phase of watching 1970’s disaster movies and Skyjacked is another decent entry. Charlton Heston was born to be an Airline Pilot such is his command of the role.
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A very civilized skyjacking. James Brolin remains one of the true kings of Crazy Eyes. Even Charlton Heston couldn’t keep up.
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The story of a man with such severe PTSD from the Vietnam War that he decides to ignore the niceties of Rosey Grier and hijack a plane and take it to the USSR during the peak of the Cold War. I can understand having some disillusions following the quagmire of Vietnam but to chose the Soviets over Rosey? Thats just crazy talk.
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Well that was howlingly bad now, wasn’t it. Cheap-looking, soft picture/camera slightly out of focus, bad dialogues, a stoic Charlton Heston like always, an atrocious turn by the otherwise great James Brolin, whom I love – he is so bad in this, overacting, hamming it up to the point of parody. This film’s got it all: sympathetic stewardesses, a competent flight crew, unbelievable events, stupid plot points, and the usual array of passengers: a senator and his son, a young…
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Storyline from the same novelist who wrote “Air Force One” – Edwin Corley (under pseudonym David Harper) who had served with the US Air Force as as a Stars & Stripes correspondent. This features James Brolin as lead a year prior to his memorable part in Westworld. Some may think he has been a pilot lots of times but this was Charlton Heston’s first of only two parts as an airline pilot with the very successful “Airport 1975” coming just two…
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Fly my plane pls charlton Airplane stuff Crazy guy Birthday Soviet stuff 1972 idk just sleep through the second half
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Weird, static, slow paced disaster movie.
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Early, somewhat forgotten, entry into the cycle of 70s disaster movies. Same director as the towering inferno a few years later. A handful of 70s pop icons like Rosie Greer and Susan Dey fill out the cast. There is the usual cheesiness associated with this era and genre, but despite that it’s actually pretty tense and entertaining. Unfortunately, I watched a pretty bad print on TCM, which is unusual for them. Not only was it pretty grainy, but it was weirdly cropped, and some of the frame was missing on the left and right side.
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“There’s nothing to worry about. It’s just a bomb.” – co-pilot Mike Henry to Yvette Mimieux. With Claude Akins as George Kennedy. And James Brolin as Van Heflin Not terrible but Brolin hams it up so much that it detracts from the film. It follows the usual course of these films, which is basically Grand Hotel / Love Boat for the first hour, with character introductions, some soap opera, a little comedy, and a star at the helm. When the…
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Words to express this movie are sappy, unbelievable, weak script, and not realistic acting.
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Entertaining but bordering on camp. Performance by Charlton Heston is his usual macho hero. Very silly subplot of romance between two characters is told in ridiculous daydream sequences. Still, it is a fun classic 1970s disaster flick.
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With an all-star cast, including Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Susan Dey, Rosevelt Grier, Marietta Hartley, Walter Pigeon, Lesley Uggams, and several other familiar looking people. Heston plays captain Ohara, Mimieux and Uggams are two of the stewardesses, Grier a musician, Brolin as an oddly behaving Air Force. Soldier, Pigeon as a senator, and Hartley a pregnant woman about to have a baby. Someone threatens the plane through messages left in the plane and they divert from…
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Nothing great, but entertaining enough. John Guillermin was a solid journeyman director and had a good sense of cutting. Charlton Heston and Walter Pidgeon do well. James Brolin is enjoyably over the top.
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DDerek Schieble 5 月 19, 2025
Another TCM is awesome post. I love watching random average movies like this on Monday mornings when you’re on vacation. What more can you ask for?
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So wonderfully dumb (and, with enough friends, beer, pizza and whiskey, enjoyable). Heston was awake for some parts of the movie. And, don’t worry, Josh Brolin was able to find a way to get work following this performance!
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Vu le film Alerte à la Bombe de John Guillermin (1972) avec Charlton Heston Jeanne Crain Yvette Mimieux Claude Akins Susan Dey Walter Pidgeon Nicholas Hammond Mariette Hartley Ross Elliott Dans un vol reliant Los Angeles à Minneapolis, plusieurs messages sont découverts, exigeant que l’avion fasse route pour Anchorage. Si l’équipage ne s’exécute pas, l’appareil et tous ses occupants seront pulvérisés. Le commandant décide d’obéir au mystérieux pirate de l’air et déroute l’avion. Quand le pirate se dévoile, il exige…
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„Endstation Hölle“ ist ein Flugzeugthriller unter der Regie von John Guillermin (Flammendes Inferno, Tod auf dem Nil), der ohne nennenswerte Höhepunkte auskommt und diverse Klischees bedient, wohl aber solide Unterhaltung in luftiger Höhe bietet. Der erfahrene Flugkapitän O‘Hara (Charlton Heston) steuert eine Passagiermaschine des Typs Boeing 707 von Kalifornien nach Minnesota. Während des Fluges entdeckt die Teenagerin Elly (Susan Dey) eine mit Lippenstift verfasste Bombendrohung auf der Damentoilette, die den Piloten anweist, den Kurs zu ändern und nach Anchorage in…
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The flashback scenes are SO BAD.
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This one tries to be different than Airport at least – the plane doesn’t stay in the air the whole time, there are slightly different stakes even though they both revolve around a bomber, but there’s a lack of urgency and tension. Charlton Heston is perfectly cast as a pilot (and, by that extension, he’s as wooden as ever). Rosey Grier is the real standout in the cast, but they don’t give him much to do past the late first/early…
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Chuck being Chuck, familiar cast and plenty of suspense made this pretty good. Heavy 70s vibe, but oh how bad the soundtrack.
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This was such a good time. Rosy Grier and his chello. Yvette Mimieux looking STUNNING while also profiling people when they got on the plane (immediately telling Susan Dey where economy seating was LOL). Leslie Uggams telling the bad guy (who I won’t spoil here) “screw you.” Jeanne Crain HELPING DELIVER A BABY. But poor John Fiedler having his voice dubbed!
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2025 Cult Movie Challenge: boxd.it/AzEBm 36. 70’s Disaster Following the success of Airport, every studio would soon want to pump out their own disaster flick. MGM were slightly early to the game with Skyjacked, a less than original reworking of Airport as a hijacking film. Everything you need to know about the mood of Skyjacked is said early on when Charlton Heston puffs on his pipe in the cockpit and a pregnant Mariette Hartley orders a Bloody Mary. Skyjacked is…
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I don’t care what anybody says, I like this movie. Skyjacked comes from a time when air travel was fun and glamorous. You dressed up to get on a plane, even if you’re only traveling from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis. As opposed to sitting beside some guy wearing a tank top and flip flops on a flying bad neighborhood to Milwaukee. Anyway, although Skyjacked is not without its flaws, it does boast some fantastic aerial photography, lovingly capturing the…
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Lots of mid-level stars in this film. Poor film quality. Highlight for me was Roosevelt Grier who seemed to be the most natural and sincere of all the characters. Of course the subtext of this film was probably PTSD after serving in Vietnam which I appreciated.
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What I found interesting is how reasonable everyone in charge is, from Charlton Heston’s pipe smoking captain to the Russian officials at the Moscow airport. Saving the passengers is more important than defeating the bad guy. Speaking of which, James Brolin is pretty fun as the deranged skyjacker. That said, his karate moves are patently ridiculous, and the flashbacks are among the most hackneyed I’ve ever seen. Which brings us to “Airplane!” After seeing its wild parody, it’s hard to take these earnest source films seriously.
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1970’s disaster on a plane movie with an all star 1970’s cast led by 1970’s all star action hero, Charlton Hesston. There’s a bomb on a plane, and a lot of other shit that you can’t get on a plane today, and somebody wants to take it to Russia. Why? Could be people either really hated Nixon or maybe they were really fuckin high. Maybe cold war Russia was a happening place? Nobody knows.
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I don’t care how many people James Brolin tries to kill, he’s the man. the flashbacks/dream sequences are such a nice touch.
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Im sure somebody else has already pointed out this was MGM’s answer to the success of Airport, but it’s not bad. Suspenseful thriller as a passenger hijacks a 707 commercial flight with a bomb. Definitely gets better as the movie goes on. James Brolin was kind of hunky back in 1972. Would hop the fence for that. Track down a copy of the DVD to watch it. The version they show and stream on TCM looks like shit.
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Rosy Grier and Leslie Uggams should be allowed to exist in the same movie!
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From the moment Rosey Grier was worried if his cello would be okay, I know this would be a fun time. The whole way, Skyjacked is good cheesy fun that ratchets up various levels of absurdity. The person with the bomb is out of his mind! There’s weird flashbacks! Someone is pregnant! There’s a senator on board! They’re rubbing out of fuel!!! Loved every minute of it.
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What do you get when you invite a pregnant woman, a jazz player, a senator, a crazed veteran, and Charlton Heston to fly to Minnesota? A flight that ends in Moscow, of course. Or, as my favorite air traffic controller character put it: “Can you divert to a free world destination?”
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Yeah, this was bad. As bad as Charlton Heston is in this, James Brolin is worse! 2 out of 5 stars – 5/10 – F
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This is the most random movie. The 70s love airplane flicks though. Thanks Russians?
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Some good squib action at the end there, and there’s some solid craziness from Brolin, but Heston really reigns it in here, probably to its detriment. A little slow going and not enough intrigue to be fully likable, but if this era is your wheelhouse your mileage (ha) may vary. It’s not a TV movie, but the appearance of Claude Akins and John Fiedler make it automatically a TV movie by association. The love triangle flashbacks were absolutely hysterical, and I’m now convinced it was this movie specifically being referenced in the flashbacks in AIRPLANE!
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I usually love 1970s disaster flicks but this was an absolute bore. It played out like a bad tv movie. Even the cast seemed like a bunch of guest stars on an episode of Love Boat. The villain was laughable and the racism was just gross.
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James Brolin at his most Josh-Brolin-like!
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Summer Under the Stars Jeanne Crain
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TCM – Summer Under the Stars This was the first film for Jeanne Crain Day, and she barely has a thing to do in this early ’70’s disaster flick, after Airport but before the major deluge of pics. A lot of the fun of these is spotting the fading stars and the up and comers. This was Jeanne Crain’s last film. And Chuck Heston was going to make a whole lot more of these. But love seeing Laurie Partridge and…
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The most entertaining thing in this movie is when James Brolin shoots Charleton Heston. Unfortunately it will need to be another day to pry that plane from his cold dead hands.
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From what initially starts off as an Airport style disaster movie, this then morphs into a whodunnit until the hijacker reveals himself. Watchable hijack thriller, let down by some cheesy flashbacks.
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Defection to Moscow Probably the most interesting 70s disaster movie I’ve ever seen? Of this specific little time in film history there were campy airplane disaster films (The Airport series, of course), disaster films where a Vietnam vet played a key role (the bloated but iconic blimpfest Black Sunday), but this is first one I’ve seen that’s both of those AND also turns into a Cold War thriller about halfway through. It’s a far fetched concept, but the movie sticks…
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Don’t worry, it’s only a bomb. Above is actual dialogue from this movie.
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Skyjacked is an interesting airbound disaster flick starring an excellent Charlton Heston. A mystery passenger successfully hijacks a large airliner, and the pilot (Heston) navigates the challenges of keeping his crew and customers safe with logic and dignity. The movie is by no means bad, but it never rises to anything more than light entertainment.
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I’ve been trying to watch this film for the last twenty years, so knowing the plot of it coming in sucked some of the fun out of it. That said, it’s not half bad, with a couple of genuinely good and unintentionally hilarious moments. The rare collaboration between actor John Hillerman and director John Guillermin!
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problematic, yeah the whole n word joke didn’t make sense. beside that i get why movies like this got popular enough to warrant airplane as a parody. also the posters for this movie are spectacular for some reason
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A plane takes off with the following in first class: – a pregnant woman – an army guy who gets an unexpected first class seat – given to him by a musician who bought the seat for – a Cello – a USA Senator who received a message from the president – the senator’s son – a annoying young lady – an older couple who are worried about something – Charlton Heston is in the Captain’s seat One these turns…
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UUncut Gems Podcast 2 月 9, 2024
In this episode of the show we are getting jacked in the sky as we are talking Skyjacked to kick off our February theme of Terror in the Sky (or T-air-or?). Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the ripples that Airport made in 1970, how the big studio heads grappled with the advent of The New Hollywood and how this movie maybe belongs in the 60s more than in the 70s. We also talk…
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SKYJACKED is a rough, rough studio experiment. The early 1970s was definitely a time of shifting sands in Hollywood. New voices with New Wave storytelling stylings, location shooting, and political beliefs in need of discussion were changing studios’ business model. Yet, at the same time, what do you do with a stable of experienced directors and actors who have a ton of background doing westerns. Certainly, SKYJACKED is an attempted recreation of the success that AIRPORT had a couple of…
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Gotta love the real-life aerial shots of that massive airliner. And that landing set piece.
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Gotta say, this one caught me by surprise and took a vastly different turn than I was expecting about 50 minutes in. The last 20 minutes or so are 70s disaster nirvana. Brolin is gloriously unhinged, the Russians are driving Ford vans, flashbacks and wipes galore. Chefs kiss on this one, I bet it plays fantastically with an audience.
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Viewed on TCM Airport (1970) was released in the spring of 1970. It was a huge hit and it ultimately received ten Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was released in the winter of 1972. It was a huge hit and it ultimately received nine Academy Award nominations. Here begins the “Disaster Movie” trend of the 1970’s. The following years we get, The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), Rollercoaster (1977), Airport ’77 (1977), Avalanche (1978) and…
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Close cousin of the Airport movies, Skyjacked feels a bit like a dry run for Chuck Heston and Airport 1975. Brolin was born to play crazy, but I wish we spent more time with Rosie Grier. Nice ariel shots of the Boeing 707 – the true star of the show. On the other hand, the flashbacks were kinda pointless and stopped the flight in mid-air.
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Surprisingly tense thriller with a strong crazed performance by James Brolin opposite a rugged Charlton Heston.
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i was expecting a lot worse? james brolin’s eyes hold insanity
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Now I see why this genre gets parodied a lot bc how tf am I supposed to take this shit seriously like…? Genuinely wanna submit this script word-for-word under a different title and author to the major studios to see if this gets even remotely close to being picked up.
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Generally enjoyed the ensemble quirks. Down the middle like I wanted it to be.
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Fun movie to pass the time, and it is a decent hijack movie. It has a few surprises. I was a young teenager when this came out, so I love all the TV stars from the era. There is melodrama, but the action thriller predominates. Charlton Heston is low key as a captain in charge of his plane without playing it over the top. Rosey Grier gets MVP; I love his character. The hijacker’s performance is outstanding as a character you will not like.
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Entertaining and enjoyable disaster film from the 70s, a decade that gave birth to the genre, Skyjacked focuses on a plane that is high jacked by a veteran, the film boasts a pretty good cast an engaging plot. Although there are better disaster films that were released in this period, Skyjacked is still a good, entertaining movie that please fans looking for a riveting, engaging disaster flick to watch. There is room for improvement but overall the film has enough…
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Aww, the halcyon days when you could get on board an aircraft with a handgun, a machine gun and a half-dozen grenades. Great times. Skyjacked is a decent entry in the 1970s disaster boom, working as a nice follow-up to Universal’ Airport, with its most standout element coming from James Brolin as an unhinged hijacker threatening to blow up the plane, he delivers a truly chilling performance as the menacing madman, and then there is Charlton Heston as the captain…
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Was this a US Military PSA deterring defection to the Soviet Union? It felt like there was a lot of unnecessary or unused character building in various flashbacks throughout. Brolin and Heston were pretty entertaining here though.
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Un misterioso dirottatore minaccia di far esplodere un ordigno nel caso il volo di linea per Minneapolis non atterri in Alaska. Il pirata dell’aria è un thriller adrenalinico ma telefonato, troppo enfatico e neanche Charlton Heston, pilota dell’aereo coinvolto nella minaccia, riesce a dargli l’asciuttezza necessaria, fra l’altro altri tempi, quando i terroristi erano dei lunatici e spesso bianchi.
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Following the hype of airport two years earlier this was one of many disaster films that plagued the 70s. I gotta say it’s not bad.
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Suspenseful and entertaining for the most part. The racial slurs were disturbing. Acting was good overall.
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Middle of the road 70s disaster film that could have been part of the Airport series. A man threatening the flight with a bomb demands to be taken to the Soviet Union. Charlton Heston’s pilot faces off well against James Brolin’s villain, otherwise pretty ho hum
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Not as introspective as Airport but at least the plane takes off in the first minute.
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Somehow in my voracious appetite for disaster films I missed this one. I probably assumed it was a made for TV film. I wouldn’t have been wrong in that assumption as the production value is at that level, but no it was theatrical released in that spot between AIRPORT and AIRPORT 75. Here we get Chuck Heaton as a pilot navigating a bomb threat on his plane, torrential weather and facing down Russian MIGs. As expected he does it with…
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Bastante floja, pero está bien que los comunistas le salven el culo a Heston.
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The poor man’s Airport 1975.
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Good thriller. Heston’s machismo has aged poorly. I suspect Heston also had a pass at the script, with its conflation of having war PTSD with being a traitor.
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Basically Airport 1.5, it’s crazy how much more entertaining the official sequels are over this.
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The 1970s, Pt. II: 61/100 1972 Ranked Skyjacked is not flashy or too over-the-top – at least compared to other disaster films of the time – with director John Guillermin blending the growing problem of plane hijackings with the disaster movie trend to good effect. Charlton Heston plays the Captain whose plane is overtaken by, at first, a mysterious hijacker who is eventually revealed to be a disgruntled ex-military man, Jerome Weber (James Brolin), who has broken out from a…
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There are some movies that make you question your parents taste. “Skyjacked” left me questioning my mother’s. She finds this movie to be a fun disaster film and I was bored to tears. Charlton Heston plays the hero, with every line coming out through gritted teeth and he has ZERO chemistry with Yvette Mimieux. Their flashbacks look like hostage situations. A baby is born on an airplane. James Brolin plays a sweaty quasi-terrorist who seems to hold more in common with today’s incels. Some casual racism.
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Pionera en la moda de películas de catástrofes que explotó en los 70s. No es de las mejores.
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Cine setentero de catástrofe y acción al más puro esquema de la época (guerra fría context).
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“Honey; don’t worry, it’s only a bomb.” Air travel in the 70’s, when you could smoke anywhere and easily take grenades, a gun, and a bomb on board a plane by telling the captain you really need to get to your sister’s wedding.
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‘Skyjacked’ is a pretty good movie. There are parts that are quite tense, the acting is engaging and the cinematography is fantastic. If you enjoy disaster movies then you might like this movie.
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This movie is JACKED! It has everything from Lost-like flashbacks filmed in whatever we call the style used when Carrie’s hand reaches up from the grave to Yvette Mimieux as a dishwater blonde stewardess to largely pregnant Mariette Hartley ordering a bloody Mary to Piglet on the ground to the Soviets to a Partridge to Walter Pidgeon and Jeanne Crain to a line pretty close to “get off my plane!”
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Commercial airline pilot Charlton Heston receives a warning that a bomb is on his plane and will go off unless he reroutes his flight to Anchorage, Alaska. The hijacker doesn’t reveal himself, but it has to be one of the passengers in first class. Is it hippie Susan Dey, who found the cryptic warning? Or perhaps jazz cellist Roosevelt Grier? Or tense U.S. Army Sgt. James Brolin? Surely it’s not Sen. Walter Pidgeon or his son Nicholas Hammond, much less…
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Not exactly the most exciting disaster movie I have ever seen. Charlton Heston is the captain of a plane that is hijacked by a soldier who wants to go to Moscow. Filled with the usual stereotypical characters, this doesn’t have any real peril as the plane goes from one airport to another on its journey. It’s never as silly as the Airport movies but at least they had moments of excitement. This is just a slow flight that goes nowhere. Dull.
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SSteve Hill 4 月 5, 2023
“Moses, take the wheel…” Charlton Heston takes a ride on the airline disaster bandwagon, as captain of a plane with a mad bomber onboard. That alone must have got some bums on seats back in 1972, but I admit I was squirming in mine. ‘Skyjacked’, helmed by John Guillermin (director of possibly the best Tarzan film, ‘Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure’ [1959]) is a surprisingly anemic affair. It’s part mystery, part thriller, part melodrama, with none of them rising far enough above…
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Even Heston seemed bored making this.
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Been watching a ton of airliner disaster films for whatever reason and this was actually pretty good. Charlton Heston is the captain on a routine flight that, whilst on course, finds itself under threat, change course or die! It establishes the various passengers normally enough, however in this instance they soon become suspects in a conspiracy to hijack the plane. Take my advice and avoid the IMDB description which does give the game away. Things remain tense, the plane and…
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Airplane set disaster movie with Charlton Heston as our heroic pilot, what’s not to love?
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First, the positive. Taken in the context of the early 1970s when the film was made, it is a serviceable storyline that unfolds with workmanlike effort, acted by a solid cast with steady direction and editing. As one who was a passenger aboard a flight diverted due to someone calling up to say a bomb was onboard, the film rings true for the most part. (We did not fly way off course, nor to a foreign country, but we did…
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This “Airport” wannabe is much better than the official sequel “Airport 1975”, both ironically starring Charlton Heston. In fact, of all the Airport film and it’s knock-off i liked this one the best.
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I suppose Skyjacked can scratch your itch for 1970s airliner disaster movies, but it won’t do it very effectively. But if you get the chance to watch a film from the director of King Kong Lives, the cinematographer of Mitchell and the stars of Devil Dog: Hound of Hell and Tentacles, well, you just have to do it.
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I’m a fan of any film in which Charlton Heston gets shot. It loses points for him not dying though. This movie actually has not twist.
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Shot through the heart, James Brolin’s to blame. Chuck Heston gives airline pilots a bad name.
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Sort of like Airport without the suspense.
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A commercial 707 en route from London to Minneapolis is re-routed after a crazed Vietnam vet (James Brolin) makes a series of terroristic threats. It’s up to stalwart captain Hank O’Hara (Charlton Heston) to get his crew and passengers — a U.S. senator (Walter Pidgeon), a jazz cellist (Roosevelt Greer), and a pregnant woman (Mariette Hartley) among them — through the ordeal. Pretty good airline thriller starts well but peaks round about the end of the second act, leaving the…
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Classic Heston movie. 3 of 5 stars.
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Remind me to never fly with James Brolin (or Charlton Heston, for that matter).
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Having watched 3/4 of the 70’s Airport disaster films, capping them off with their spoof Airplane, I feel like I’ve completed this era of jumbo jet jitter-fests. But seeing as I’m partial to bit of mopping up, I noticed this rarity on my Letterboxd watchlist and couldn’t resist. The trouble is, Skyjacked is so of the blueprint that it will file into my subconscious as nothing of note. This review will likely be my only trigger to know I’ve seen…
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A first time watch on 35mm. Surprisingly good, filled with tension and a slew of familiar faces. Great performances by all. Definitely worth a watch.
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VÔO 502: EM PERIGO Primeira contribuição de John Guillermin para o cinema-desastre da década de 1970. A outra foi superior, e icônica: ‘Inferno na Torre’, 1974. Não estou incluindo sua versão sexual de ‘King Kong’ em 1976, mas fique à vontade. No vôo sequestrado a partir do livro de David Harper, e na esteira do sucesso de ‘Aeroporto’, dois anos antes, a primeira metade da história até parece ser absorvente. Guillermin lida bem com o espaço confinado e os vários…
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Not bad. Pretty tense, well-paced and James Brolin does particularly well. Good cast and a fine entry in the disaster film canon.
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😑36% 👍10 👎18 = Underwhelming! 📃Part of the ‘2022 Anniversary Movies’ Project _________________________ 👍POSITIVE THOUGHTS: 1. Skyjacked gets to the gist of the plot fairly quickly and slowly incorporated characterization and drama into the overall narrative. 2. The music is groovy, and I love it! Too bad that there is so little of it, though. 3. I have to commend Charlton Heston for playing an unusually calm and reasonable aeroplane captain, always thinking about his next step before taking it.…
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“Don’t worry it is just bomb”. I have a thing for this sort of over serious 70 programmer that plays its ridiculousness straight. Unfortunately, this is among the lesser ones. Made a couple of years after Airport and slight before The Poseidon Adventure perfect the disaster movie formula of the period. Charlton Heston commands a plane that gets hijacked by a mad bomber and that’s more or less it. James Brolin does a lot of acting crazy as the bomber,…
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why bother hiding the identity of the hijacker if it turns out to be the most obvious character anyway? personally I was rooting for the pregnant woman to have a false belly holding the bomb. this movie is weirdly inert – like watching a poorly-staged play where everyone stands around talking about the concept of hijacking but nobody seems all that concerned about it. oddly enough, it gets slightly more thrilling in the second half after the plane is back…
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What could have been a TV movie, this theatrical release includes a stellar cast with lots of familiar faces and typical clichés of the disaster drama – though there is very little disaster here other then the insipid script. Melodrama abounds most of it involves the quite attractive female cast members. James Brolin gives an embarrassingly over-the-top performance and Chuck Heston is our hammy hero.
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𝟱𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 How stupid were we in 1972 when it came to airline security?
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With the exception of the weirdly saccharine flashback sequences this was a well crafted and tense thriller with a pretty serious take on PTSD. Also Heston is great even if some of his character’s decisions are questionable.
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Je suis un grand adepte de l’héroïsme rentré de Mr Charlton Heston. RIP Yvette Mimieux.
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You know why I watched this? Because it starred Charlton Heston and I’ll pretty much watch anything with Heston. I don’t care what people say about that guy, he had a solid fucking presence.
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NNot_That_Robyn 9 月 3, 2021
Slow start, gets going in the last half, but really not enough to ‘save’ it.
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If only all we had to fear today were hijackers. As any film about an airplane made before 9/11, Skyjacked is badly dated but it’s a real kick. The plane wasn’t full, first class was nearly empty – when was the last time anyone saw that? People entered and left the cockpit as though it was the Holiday Inn. There was both a bomb and gun on board inside a carry-on satchel. None of the carry-on baggage was screened. People…
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At first glance, Skyjacked is nearly indistinguishable from the Airport disaster movies. You have the romance between the pilot and the flight attendant (paired with some schmaltzy flashbacks). A bunch of passengers who all have one defining character trait (the woman who is pregnant, the guy who plays the cello, the couple who likes to travel). Then you have Charlton Heston playing the captain in a similar role he plays in the second Airport movie. However, this is decidedly better…
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Skyjacked was on my disaster movie watchlist. The light melodrama has ingredients taken from Airport (1970). Two things stand out in this Skyjacked. First, Charlton Heston’s acting was great and he was such a ruggedly handsome man, if I can say so. Second, the sequences of the 707 in flight and the interception with the fighter jets had cool and solid cinematography. But every time the 707 jet turned, it was a big tilted turn that would of had passengers hanging…
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“Let my people go” — Charlton Heston presumably, if this had a better script
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Bad movie with some great ridiculousness that cracked me up. Love the cast. I quite enjoyed it from beginning to end and will probably watch or half-watch again, someday.
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Of all the different types of disaster movie, I’ve always found the airplane disaster to be the least interesting, which sucks because they’re also the most plentiful. And they’re all exactly the same: a cast of familiar faces playing thinly-sketched characters who you don’t give a shit about. And also, for some reason, the pilot is always in some complicated relationship with a stewardess (I know, flight attendant. But not in the ’70s). 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚! really parodied these things to perfection…
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A beta version of the Airport model of thrillers, the type that had a broad cast and a singular location as a hook. Heston is his usual ham-fisted self, a vibe that I personally enjoy. Brolin sweats through the whole thing as a PTSD addled Vietnam vet, and Rosie Grier plays a classical musician with a secret stash of booze. Fun, but shallow times await, should you press play.
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TBH the only notable thing about this is how much young James Brolin looks like Christian Bale. Too bad he couldn’t act anywhere near as well.
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Although MGM had a 1972 box office hit with this in the wake of Airport, it really hasn’t aged too well. The script is the main weakness, with a poorly developed hijacking plot and thin characterizations (with awful “dream moments” to attempt to provide some back story). Hard to drum up tension. Still, Charlton Heston clearly didn’t mind the role of airline pilot, as he starred in Airport 1975 only a couple of years later.
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Nothing instils confidence like knowing that your airliner is being piloted by Charlton Heston, unless it’s Chuck lighting up his pipe just as he’s about to take off. This man will clearly be able to take every eventuality in his stride, which is just as well. Clearly this is a response to the success of Airport, although here the action takes place almost exclusively in the air. And it turns out to be an audition tape for Chuck’s turn in…
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Airplane April II I don’t know if its just because of how shit the other airplane movies I’ve seen so far but I thought this movie wasn’t that bad. It’s indistinguishable from the quality of the other Airport movies and that’s perfectly fine. They even brought back Charlton Heston from the best airport movie even though this came out first. It’s a relatively tense and entertaining and of all the airplane movies I’ve seen too far this month this is the one I can recommend the most.
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Skyjacked is a solid all-star disaster flick. John Guillermin directs the film professionally, offering solid thrills and appropriate suspense. Charlton Heston grounds the film dramatically, giving legitimacy to the formulaic goings-on. The supporting cast is unsurprisingly eclectic, ranging from Yvette Mimieux to Walter Pidgeon to Rosey Grier. The surprise villain is truly threatening, allowing for an exciting, if somewhat exploitative, take on Cold War anxiety in the midst of Hollywood cliche. If a less experienced director had made this film,…
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Skyjacked is a perfect example of the sort of theatrical release that would’ve been a “Movie of the Week” feature on television if not for the presence of Charlton Heston, who at this point in his career, was bulletproof at the box office with every other film he headlined raking in money. This one was no exception with it being one of MGM’s most profitable films of 1972 at $6.55 million (alongside Shaft and Kansas City Bomber). Between 1961 and…
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This is a pretty good example of the kind of disaster film Airplane! was parodying. An airliner is hijacked by a mystery man who leaves a message saying there is a bomb on board. Stoic captain Charlton Heston leads the crew and passengers, which include a senator, a large friendly guy with a cello, and a pregnant woman, through the ordeal. There’s some potential early on, as the film has a sort of procedural focus on the flight before things…
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A disaster, an airplane and Charlton Heston, the holy trinity of greatness but somehow this movie just couldn’t quite make it work. It does have the essentials: Charlton Heston smoking a pipe while piloting a passenger plane, a pregnant woman demanding hard liquor, embarrassingly awkward romantic scenes and a sweet 1970’s score but none of it really adds up to anything. The villain is also a little too comfortable with the N word in his mouth which is a big…
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On the list of 70s disaster films, basically a variation on Airport. Fantastic cast, but some bad dialog, with cheesy flashback that I guess were supposed to give the characters more depth, but makes the film feel cheaper than it really was. Not sure if it was TCMs copy or not, but sound quality was terrible and the film look was blurry. Probably only for Heston and or Brolin fans, a bit of a oddity or curiosity film, but if you are on the fence, you could skip it. Overall the film is basically average.
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What they really mean is hijacked as a plane gets hijacked and all the drama that surrounds it. Also with an incredible all star cast even the minor roles from MGM
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Enjoyable, if woefully outdated disaster flick. Skip them and just watch Airplane!
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James Brolin’s easily the creepy highlight of the movie. Probably one of those rare times I can say that I wish there were MORE flashbacks. Heston’s supposedly the hero, but spends most of the film being a condescending jerk to every person he meets — down to smoking a huge wood pipe in a small cockpit to the visible dismay of his crew.
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The success of 1970’s Airport got this movie made. In this one an anonymous hijacker wants Charlton Heston (the pilot) to take a plane to Alaska or the hijacker will blow the plane up. The first part of a movie is much better than the second part. Once the hijacker is unmasked the movie falls apart. The pace is pretty slow and there is a Heston love story (with Yvette Mimieux) that is awkward at best and ends up having nothing to do with the movie. Final thought: An ok movie. Ranked 38th of 63 movies on our UMR Charton Heston Movie Ranking Page. http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/charlton-heston-movies/
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There’s only a handful of things more enjoyable than watching Charlton Heston act – and there’s almost nothing better than when he’s placed into a terrifying situation like Skyjacked. The ridiculous plot doesn’t matter, the bad dialogue, again, doesn’t matter – ALL that matters is Heston and how he reacts. Everything else might be bad, but HESTON REIGNS
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SKYJACKED Bomber demands plane divert to Anchorage Charlton Heston cheesy flashback scenes Brolin-Grier Claude Akins=George Kennedy Pregnant lady in labor 70s lingo “broad” Leslie Uggams This movie sucks like a @Dyson but I just can’t look away. SAVE YOURSELF
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Is that an old Walt pidge I see??? Ofc he’s playin a senator lol. All the old Hollywood actors are always Best at playin presidents/politicians/business tycoons. Damn this movie is bad but wow it’s fucking good. Holy shit. There’s some cool ass shots too man the shots of the flying idk if it’s special effects or what but there’s some cool beautiful shit there. What a ride lol. 75/100
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Skyjacked. 1972. Charlton Heston. Yvette Mimieux. One of the early airline disaster films that launched an entire disaster movie franchise. Airport was probably the earliest. This movie was great for one reason. The 1980 film Airplane. It was plain as day where the “Airplane” creators stole all of their material. Beyond that, this film was just okay. This was the film debut of Susan Dey and Rosey Grier while this was the last film for big screen star Jeanne Crain.…
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Well, it’s the 70s and Heston is going to land that damn plane if it kills him. An enjoyable thriller set in the wild blue yonder, though it should probably not be the first stop for anyone not well versed in this particular and peculiar genre.
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From the era when villains were all crazy Vietnam veterans, we find James Brolin as a skyjacker who takes over pipe smoking captain Charlton Heston’s plane. A slog to get through, I found Brolin fairly engaging despite his character’s dumb motivation of communist glory, where I found Heston actively bad in his role. Not the fun time I was hoping for.
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A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film and demands to be taken to Russia. Entertaining enough in the Airport series mode. Charlton Heston is his usual stoic best. Brolin is crazy enough. The movie is typical or the era. Director: John Guillermin Writers: Stanley R. Greenberg (screenplay by), David Harper (based upon the novel by) Stars: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux
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In the mood to watch one of the AIRPORT films? Watch this instead. A plot that’ll actually keep you guessing, and all the 70s stars you could want: James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Rosey Grier, Susan Dey, Nicholas Hammond, Mariette Hartley, Leslie Uggams. As always, Charlton Heston overcommits, and is both the best and worst thing in the film.
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I watched it for Yvette Mimieux.
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They dubbed over John Fielder and that’s not the worst of it.
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Watched in a double feature with The Concorde… Airport ’79, which makes perfect sense since both films are about American planes charting dangerous paths to Moscow, although the route in Skyjacked is specifically the result of a bomb threat. As is par for the course in a 70s disaster film, there are plenty of stars on display: rugged captain Charlton Heston, stalwart flight attendants Yvette Mimieux and Leslie Uggams and a passenger manifest that includes James Brolin, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne…
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There ain’t one thing depicted here that you could still do on a plane. A real, mega 1970s era thriller. Charlton Heston does pull off the hero Captain well in what plays out like a who dunit with a bomb on a plane. Although… YET AGAIN the letterboxd plot description gives away the goat. Its not the hardest thing to figure, but its still well into the film before the reveal is made. Sadly thats where things go off the…
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August 30th/2020 TCM Skyjacked is a 1972 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin. The film stars Charlton Heston, James Brolin and Yvette Mimieux, along with an ensemble cast primarily playing the roles of passengers and crew aboard an airliner. Skyjacked is based on the David Harper novel Hijacked.
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Don’t worry, it’s only a bomb.
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TCM Summer Under The Stars 2020 Charlton Heston A generic 1970’s disaster movie that was made after the success of “Airport”. Unfortunately, it has a lame plot, bad dialogue and bad overacting. This feels like a Made for TV movie with the flying scenes being the best part of the film. A definite skip!
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Coming in the wake of Airport and boasting a similar plot, this never amassed much of a reputation in its day, but it is a decent disaster flick that tries to do something different. While Airport revealed its bomber’s identity early on, Skyjacked drums up much suspense from the mystery of just who its bomber is. It is fun to see the airline crew play detective while we watch the passengers converse and try to work out who it might…
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B 86 watched in 2020 – Summer with the Stars – Charlton Heston
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Very dull and melodramatic early entry into the disaster cannon, evidently trying to emulate Airport with some drama in the skies but it takes forever to takeoff and then is fairly uneventful until James Brolin starts over acting. Some points for chintz, red blood, Heston and 70s cheese. #sundaydisasters
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One of the first movies I ever remember seeing. My older brothers must have taken me lol. I remembered the ending. Seeing the whole thing again now is just making Airplane! that much funnier.
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Workman-like film that hits all the 1970s thriller buttons: aging leading man, diverse cast of bystanders, very slight reference to Vietnam, and Soviets. Nothing remarkable here, but moves along at a decent pace. There are 4 flashback/dream sequences that add a touch of art, but they are mostly distracting or nonsensical. Highlight of the story was the Soviet guards dispatching the hijacker with extreme prejudice as soon as he lands.
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Viewed in 1972. All star cast.
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PPaulHaigh 6 月 13, 2020
Airplane disaster terrorist film works successfully as entertainment while maintaining several disaster cliches. There is a pregnant woman on board! The stewardess is in love with Captain Charlton Heston! And this is shown with a flashback to her happiness at him pushing her on a swing. Brolin as a Vietnam vet looks like an alternate universe Christian Bale jobbing in B pic crazy roles. One of the most entertaining bits is after they land and Brolin looks out the window…
- Synopsis
- A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
- Director
- John Guillermin
- Writer
- Stanley R. Greenberg
- Studio
- Walter Seltzer Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 101 mins
- USA24 May 1972
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