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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1972 DVD Release: 06/26/2007 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Action, Action Thriller

Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin, is subsequently subdued, the crew must contend with a hidden time bomb. The film is graced with a who's who of MGM contractees past and present, including Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon and Mike Henry. A flashback sequence contains one of the first examples of an American film coming to grips with how rudely our Vietnam veterans were ignored upon returning home; alas, this compassion quickly degenerates into the odious "crazed Vietnam vet" cliche. Footnote: The first network showing of Skyjacked was boycotted by TV stations owned by the Storer Corporation, which had a hard and fast rule against screening any film concerning a hijacked plane. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Charlton Heston - Henry O'Hara
Yvette Mimieux - Angela Thacher
James Brolin - Jerome K. Weber
Claude Akins - Sgt. Ben Puzo
Jeanne Crain - Mrs. Clara Shaw
Kelley Miles - Hazel Martin

John Guileran's Skyjacked wasn't taken too seriously, even when it was released in 1972, and since then Charlton Heston's wooden acting style has become such an object of parody and ridicule, that it has truly earned a place for itself in Warner Home Video's "Cult Camp Classics" series. The movie has been transferred in its proper Panavision (2.35-to-1) aspect ratio; and the audio is full bodied as well, if not quite as loud as it ought to be under ideal circumstances. The movie has been given 26 chapter markers, which is more than it deserves, given its relatively simple plot, stock characters, and most of the performances. The menu opens automatically on start-up, and is simpler than most, given the absence of even a trailer as a bonus feature. Warner Home Video has issued it separately, and also folded it in with two much more interesting and entertaining movies, Zero Hour! and Hot Rods to Hell in one volume of its Cult Camp Classics series. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide