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Release Date:
21 June 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
Three years before the United States declares war, Cliff Secord leads America's first battle against the Nazis.
Plot:
A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high flying masked hero. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win
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4 nominations
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(27 articles)
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wonderful, old-fashioned movie
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bill Campbell | ... | Cliff |
 | Jennifer Connelly | ... | Jenny |
 | Alan Arkin | ... | Peevy |
 | Timothy Dalton | ... | Neville Sinclair |
 | Paul Sorvino | ... | Eddie Valentine |
 | Terry O'Quinn | ... | Howard Hughes |
 | Ed Lauter | ... | Fitch |
| James Handy | ... | Wooly |
| Robert Miranda | ... | Spanish Johnny (as Robert Guy Miranda) |
| John Lavachielli | ... | Rusty |
 | Jon Polito | ... | Bigelow |
| Eddie Jones | ... | Malcolm |
 | William Sanderson | ... | Skeets |
 | Don Pugsley | ... | Goose |
| Nada Despotovich | ... | Irma |
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108 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby SR (35 mm prints) (as Dolby Stereo)
Certification:
Iceland:10 (original rating) |
Iceland:12 (video rating) |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Finland:K-12/9 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG
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Continuity: The color of the endcap on the Gee Bee's control stick changes from red just as Cliff takes off to yellow after he flies over the car chase.
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Peevy:
[after the test flight, about keeping the rocket pack] We're gonna need one hell of a lawyer
Cliff Secord: [seeing the destroyed statues' head, worriedly] I think we're gonna need a helmet.
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Cliff Secord: [seeing the destroyed statues' head, worriedly] I think we're gonna need a helmet.
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Referenced in "Married with Children: Kelly Does Hollywood: Part 1 (#6.9)" (1991)
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EASY TO LOVE
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I've always surprised when people don't like this movie. It was one of my favorites at the time, and it has aged very well. It's a real "retro 30's" picture, like "The Shadow", instead of being a modern reinterpretation of such movies like the Indiana Jones films (which I also like very much).
The reviews cover the plot enough, and there are no real surprises here, but it's great family fun. My kids really love this movie, and I end up watching it every year or two, and I have never tired of it. When it came out there were apparently sequels planned, but it got killed at the box office by T2, which ran over everything that summer, so Disney never did anything with the show. They have recycled the atmosphere and the music in the "Soaring over California" ride at DCA, and I have to say it always makes me wistful that the movie never got a sequel.
By the way, the movie doesn't follow the comics that closely, which I don't mind, but if you are a purist and a fan of the "graphic novels", you might keep that in mind.