''Shootdown'' is a 1988 American
made-for-television drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super- ...
starring
Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American film, stage, and television actress. Her career spanned eight decades, much of it in the United States, and her work received a great deal ...
.
Leonard Hill served as the executive producer.
Plot
In the film, Nan Moore (Lansbury) loses her son in the
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007)The flight number KAL 007 was used by air traffic control, while the public flight booking system used KE 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alas ...
disaster. She wishes to discover the truth about her son's death.
Cast
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Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American film, stage, and television actress. Her career spanned eight decades, much of it in the United States, and her work received a great deal ...
as Nan Moore
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George Coe as David
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Kyle Secor
Kyle Ivan Secor (born May 31, 1957) is an American television and film actor. He is known for portraying Detective Tim Bayliss on the crime drama series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999).
Early years
Secor was born in Tacoma, Wash ...
as John Moore
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Molly Hagan
Molly Joan Hagan is an American actress. She co-starred in films ''Code of Silence'' (1985), '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' (1987), ''The Dentist'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), and '' Sully'' (2016), and is also known for her roles in television on ...
as Elizabeth Moore
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Jennifer Savidge
Jennifer Savidge is an American actress, best known for her role as Nurse Lucy Papandrao in the NBC medical drama series, ''St. Elsewhere''. She is married to actor Robert Fuller.
Career
Savidge has appeared in a number of television shows. Fro ...
as Mary
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Diana Bellamy
Diana Alice Bellamy (September 19, 1943 – June 17, 2001) was an American character actress of stage, film, and television, during the 1980s and mid-2000s, who was often cast in both comedic and dramatic roles to great acclaim. Bellamy is know ...
as Lillian
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Alan Fudge
Alan Fudge (February 27, 1944 – October 10, 2011) was an American actor known for his roles in four television programs, '' Man from Atlantis'', '' Eischied'', ''Paper Dolls'' and ''Bodies of Evidence'', along with a recurring role on '' 7th H ...
as Bruce
Production
The film's production was delayed due to controversies surrounding the KAL007 incident. NBC subjected the film to various cuts and rewrites. Producer Leonard Hill said that NBC's censors "played the role of grand inquisitor. It was quite a relentless interrogation and it turned into a war of attrition." The network deleted dialogue that criticized the U.S. government for using the incident for its own political purposes, and specific criticisms of the Reagan administration were likewise repressed. Consequently, the film made no mention of the U.S. Air Force destroying all radar tapes after the incident, nor that the Korea pilot Captain Chun took out a grand sum of insurance the night before the flight. The network also insisted that Seymour Hersh's view that the aeroplane had simply drifted into Soviet airspace be inserted into the film.
See also
''
Coded Hostile''
References
External links
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1988 television films
1988 films
1988 drama films
American drama films
American aviation films
NBC network original films
Films directed by Michael Pressman
Films scored by Craig Safan
1980s American films
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