![]() ![]() Corny, even by 70s disaster film standards. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. Although I wasn’t able to watch this film with the Movie Club, I did watch it twice in the privacy of my own home and wished I’d had a Movie (or any other sort of ) Club with which to smash it into pieces. The story here involves the first "hypersonic" passenger airplane, but something goes wrong (Titanic style) on it's maiden voyage. Adventure TV Movie Science Fiction Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. ![]() And like most disaster films of this time, there was the usual mix of famous stars of the past (Ray Milland, Robert Webber, Jocelyn Brando ) and familiar faces of the moment (Lauren Hutton, Tess Harper, Terry Kiser, Gail Strickland, George DiCenzo, and Heather McAdam). Director: Jerry Jameson Cast: George DiCenzo, Tess Harper, Terry Kiser Read Reviews. I'd dismiss the film as TV movie quality, but it actually was a TV movie and features TV stars like Lee "Six Million Dollar Man" Majors and Hal "Barney Miller" Linden. The film’s conception has been no more than the idea of setting an Airport movie in orbit. It falls into the 1970s fad for Disaster Movies following the massive successes of films such as The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). ’77, TV’s Superdome) with music by the great Lalo Schifrin (Coogan’s Bluff, Bullitt). Time is running out for the Starflight One, a.k.a. Heading the all-star cast of this sci-fi adventure are Lee Majors (TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man) as the ship’s captain, Hal Linden (TV’s Barney Miller) as the scientific genius behind the machine, Tess Harper (Tender Mercies) as Majors’ wife, Lauren Hutton (Gator) as Majors’ lover and Ray Milland (Panic in Year Zero) as the high-powered chairman of the aerospace company.From the writer of "Escape to Witch Mountain" and the director of "Gomer Pyle" and "Walker, Texas Ranger" comes an awfully forgettable Airport disaster film ripoff. Starflight One was a tv movie that was cinematically released outside of the US. This was essentially a Airport-style movie wannabe but amped up with technology so that it could take place in. ![]() Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, in this nerve-jangling space-age disaster movie directed by suspense specialist Jerry Jameson (Airport ’77, TV’s Superdome) with music by the great Lalo Schifrin (Coogan’s Bluff, Bullitt). Cast: Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton. Time is running out for the Starflight One, a.k.a. Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe. All systems are “go” until a misguided missile renders the craft helpless, pushing it into a deadly orbit above Earth that threatens the total annihilation of its passengers. Touted as a technological breakthrough, the super-speed aircraft debarks amid much fanfare. Top cast Edit Lee Majors Captain Cody Briggs Hal Linden Josh Gilliam Lauren Hutton Erica Hansen Ray Milland Q. Heading the all-star cast of this sci-fi adventure are Lee Majors (TVs The Six Million Dollar Man) as the ship. TVs Superdome) with music by the great Lalo Schifrin (Coogans Bluff, Bullitt). Special effects guru John Dykstra (Star Wars) brings his technical expertise to this futuristic vision of the maiden flight of the world’s first hypersonic transport jet. Movies / TV: Science Fiction, Action / Adventure: 738329258085.
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