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Release Date: 1977
Cast: Season Hubley, Billy Crystal, Chrystie Jenner ... Kathy, Ric Carrott, Lorne Greene, Richard Derr, Walter Maslow ... Passenger, Susan Strasberg, Robert Ito, Peter Graves, Martin Milner, Shawn Randall ...MORE
Cast: Season Hubley, Billy Crystal, Chrystie Jenner ... Kathy, Ric Carrott, Lorne Greene, Richard Derr, Walter Maslow ... Passenger, Susan Strasberg, Robert Ito, Peter Graves, Martin Milner, Shawn Randall, Misty Rowe, Alain Patrick, Sherwood Price ... Mickey, Tina Louise, Regis Philbin, Tom Stewart, Brock Peters, Tim Pell ... Linus, Burgess Meredith, Bert Convy, John de Lancie, Robert Reed, Doug McClure, George Maharis, Paul Napier, Barbara Anderson ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Action, Disaster
SST Death Flight (aka SST: Disaster in the Sky) is a 1977 made-for-TV movie produced by ABC Circle Films. It featured an all-star television cast and was directed by David Lowell Rich, who went on to direct The Concorde ... Airport '79. The film capitalizes on the smorgasbord of 1970s aircraft disaster films, this time with a supersonic transport aircraft that is refused permission to land due to the threat of spreading a virulent strain of influenza.
The film premiered on February 25, 1977 on ABC and went into syndication. It was lampooned in 1989 by the characters of the KTMA broadcast... MORE
SST Death Flight (aka SST: Disaster in the Sky) is a 1977 made-for-TV movie produced by ABC Circle Films. It featured an all-star television cast and was directed by David Lowell Rich, who went on to direct The Concorde ... Airport '79. The film capitalizes on the smorgasbord of 1970s aircraft disaster films, this time with a supersonic transport aircraft that is refused permission to land due to the threat of spreading a virulent strain of influenza.
The film premiered on February 25, 1977 on ABC and went into syndication. It was lampooned in 1989 by the characters of the KTMA broadcast version of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film is noted for its formulaic plot and its poor production values. For instance, it depicted an American SST as the first of its kind, and used a scale model of what was basically a Concorde with Boeing 747 turbofan engines attached. Other shots were completed using a mock-up of a Boeing 2707, a prototype the company had created when Americans were still pursuing their own SST program.
It's the maiden flight of America's first supersonic transport. Unfortunately, a disgruntled employee (George Maharis) annoyed with his employer—the designer of the LESS
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