Bomb Alert ( Skyjacked ) is an American disaster film directed by John Guillermin , released in 1972 .
Synopsis
A former soldier, demobilized for psychiatric disorders and victim of hallucinations, diverts a Boeing 707 leaving for Europe with the intention of landing in Moscow. Lost in his madness, he imagines that the USSR is waiting for him to be a hero and is ready to do anything to achieve his goal.
Technical sheet
- Original title: Skyjacked
- French title: Alerte à la bomb
- Director: John Guillermin
- Scenario: based on David Harper’s novel Hijacked
- Music: Perry Botkin Jr.
- Editing: Robert Swink
- Production Company: Walter Seltzer Prod.
- Distribution Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Filming Location: Albuquerque , New Mexico
- Budget: $ 2,700,000
- Country of origin: United States
- Original language: English
- Genre: disaster
- Duration: 101 minutes
- Release dates:
- United States :
- France :
Distribution
- Charlton Heston (VF: Jean-Claude Michel ) : Captain Henry “Hank” O’Hara
- Yvette Mimieux (VF: Arlette Thomas ) : Angela Thacher
- James Brolin (VF: Jean-Claude Balard ) : Jerome K. Weber
- Claude Akins (VF: Robert Bazil ) : Sergeant Ben Puzo
- Jeanne Crain : M me Clara Shaw
- Susan Dey : Elly Brewster
- Roosevelt Grier (VG: Bachir Toure ) : Gary Brown
- Mariette Hartley : Harriet Stevens
- Walter Pidgeon (VF: Jean-Henri Chambois ) : Sen. Arne Lindner
- Ken Swofford : John Bimonte
- Leslie Uggams : Lovejoy Wells
- Ross Elliott : Harold Shaw
- Nicholas Hammond : Peter Lindner
- Mike Henry (VF: Claude Giraud ) : Sam Allen
- Jayson Kane : William Reading
- Toni Clayton : Jane Burke
- John Hillerman : Walter Brandt
- Kelley Miles : Hazel Martin
- Maureen Connell : M me O’Hara
- John Fiedler (VF: Philippe Dumat ) : Robert Grandig
- Wesley Lau : Stanley Morris
- Natividad Vacío : the Spanish passenger (uncredited)