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Air America
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy irreverent military aviation adventures balancing chaotic action, cynical politics, and camaraderie.
- Tone
- adventurous, darkly comic, tense
- Payoff
- amusement, adrenaline
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- wartime profiteering, moral compromise, institutional corruption, friendship, survival
- Setting
- 1960s wartime Southeast Asia, improvised airstrips and remote mountain villages
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