SST: Death Flight | |
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Screenplay by | |
Story by | Guerdon Trueblood |
Directed by | David Lowell Rich |
Starring | |
Composer | John Cacavas |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Ron Roth |
Cinematography | Joseph Biroc |
Editor | Pembroke J. Herring |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Production companies | ABC Circle Films |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | February 25, 1977 |
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SST: Death Flight is a 1977 American disaster television film directed by David Lowell Rich. The film stars an ensemble cast including Barbara Anderson, Bert Convy, Peter Graves, Lorne Greene, Season Hubley, Tina Louise, George Maharis, Doug McClure, Burgess Meredith, Martin Milner, Brock Peters, Robert Reed, and Susan Strasberg. It follows a crippled supersonic transport (SST) that is refused permission to land due to the threat of spreading a deadly strain of influenza.
The teleplay was written by Robert L. Joseph and Meyer Dolinsky from a story by Guerdon Trueblood. David Lowell Rich also directed the airplane disaster films The Horror at 37,000 Feet and The Concorde ... Airport '79.