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- Title
- Skyjacked
- AKA
- Il pirata dell'aria [The Pirate of the Air] (Italy) | Sky Terror (USA - TV title)
- Year of Film
- 1972
- Director
- John Guillermin
- Starring
- Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Susan Dey, Roosevelt Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon, Ken Swofford, Leslie Uggams, Ross Elliott, Nicholas Hammond
- Origin of Film
- USA
- Type of Poster
- 30x40
- Origin of Poster
- USA
- Year of Poster
- 1972
- Designer
- Unknown
- Size (inches)
- 30 1/16" x 40"
- SS or DS
- SS
- NSS #
- 72/181
Skyjacked (opens in a new tab) was just one of multiple plane-hijacking films that followed the release of 1970’s Airport (opens in a new tab) and starred Charlton Heston (opens in a new tab) as the pilot of a Boeing 707 hijacked by a crazed Vietnam vet (James Brolin). The hijacker forces the plane to be diverted to Anchorage, Alaska and then onto Russia where he hopes to defect to the Soviets, but he doesn’t count on the determination of the pilot.
The simplified, symbolic image of the airplane on this 30×40 US poster has the feeling of a Saul Bass (opens in a new tab) design but I don’t believe it to be the work of the legendary graphic designer. If you have any ideas of who is responsible for it please get in touch.
The original trailer is on YouTube (opens in a new tab).
