Air America
The few. The proud. The totally insane.
Overview
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, 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.
- Budget
- $35,000,000
- Revenue
- $57,661,269
- Production
- IndieProd Company Productions, Carolco Pictures
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Cast
Mel Gibson
Gene Ryack
Robert Downey Jr.
Billy Covington
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
Yanee Tramoth
Gene's Brother-in-law
Ernie Lively
Truck Driver
Burke Byrnes
Recruiter
Michael Dudikoff
General Lee (uncredited)
Sinjai Plengpanich
May Ling
Wasan Uttamayothin
Nightclub Singer
Crew
- Director
- Roger Spottiswoode
- Writers
- Richard Rush,John Eskow
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Composer
- Charles Gross
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CinemaSerf
November 14, 2022
When "Billy" (Robert Downey Jr.) loses his pilot's licence after a lively misdemeanour, he finds himself working in war-torn Laos with the team at "Air America". This is a CIA-backed operation consisting of a disparate bunch of pilots whose job it is to fly in supplies to local villages. It's there that he meets "Gene" (Mel Gibson) and also where he realises that not only is it pretty dangerous out there, but that his paymasters are into the narcotics trade in quite a big way and, to make matter…
GenerationofSwine
January 12, 2023
I have a special love for this film, if for no other reason that the bulk of my college experience was spent on the cold war, the alphabet soup of PBSUCCESS, MKULTRA, JMWAVE, PAPERCLIP, COLDFEET, MKOFTEN, The Phoenix Program, ARTICHOKE, and my favorite (just because of how bad it sounds) Midnight Climax. So a comedy about Air America was absolutely priceless. And, given that I am not one of those history nuts that cares about historical accuracy I can still sit back and enjoy something like t…
JPV852
August 11, 2025
Entertaining enough action-war movie thanks to the charisma of both Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. The film also has some solid action scenes and direction, to go along with Roger Deakins's cinematography. From what I read about this, doesn't seem like many had fun making the movie, including Deakins and Downey. Still, I found it enjoyable even if Gibson's character shift didn't felt surface level. **3.0/5**