Nose Dive

By J.C.

SKYJACKED

Directed by JOHN GUILLERMIN Screenplay by STANLEY R. GREENBERG

On board Global Flight 502, non stop from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis, are an ulcerous businessman (Ross Elliott) and his steadfast wife (Jeanne Grain); a jolly jazz musician (Roosevelt Grier); a United States Senator (Wal ter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under his seat. One among these is a skyjacker. Guess who?

Not that it makes much difference.

Skyjacked is the sort of proudly stupid melodrama that flaunts its absurdities.

The plot is incredible, the dialogue un speakable, and the movie, as a result, is pretty fair fun.

Skyjacked is an unashamed throw back to the '40s, when such topical B features were ground out once a month. The nostalgic tendency now is to overvalue such celluloid trivia, but Skyjacked, at least, is a good deal more diverting than Airport.

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