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Watch: Concorde Affaire ’79 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – Reporter Moses Brody receives a phone-call from his ex-wife, a fellow reporter, who says he has a big story in the Antilles. When he arrives, she has been killed. While investigating her death, he comes across the case she was working on: a crashed Concorde airliner, sabotaged by an airline company whose South American business is jeopardized by the new Concorde airplanes. He digs deeper and finds that the stewardess survived the crash into the ocean, but she is being held by criminals who are blackmailing the company responsible for the crash. The crash site is kept hidden, however, and the authorities don’t believe his story without the proper evidence. On his own, Brody attempts to rescue the stewardess from her captors, and while doing so, he discovers that another Concorde flight out of London has been sabotaged to crash in the same way. The two race against the clock to get the information to London and prevent the crash..
Plot: A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline’s plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
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As Cheap, Cheesy Italian-made Action Flicks Go, ‘Concorde Affaire ’79’ isn’t Half Bad
It’s tempting to call “Concorde Affaire ’79” (a.k.a. “Concorde Affair”) a rip-off since its title is so close to the hilariously awful “The Concorde: Airport ’79,” but beyond that the only similarities the movies share is the crashing of their titular plane. They’re not even in the same genre, with the Italian-made “Concorde Affaire ’79 ” more of an action thriller than a disaster movie.

The action kicks off right away when an airline CEO (a bored Joseph Cotten) orders the sabotage a rival’s Concorde test flight, causing it to crash in the Caribbean Sea, killing everyone on board. News coverage is routine, but then New York-based freelance journalist Moses Brody (James Franciscus) gets a scoop from his ex-wife—who just happens to run a restaurant in the Antilles—and though she’s irritatingly vague he heads to the islands anyway. By the time he arrives his ex is dead and there are thugs trying to kill him. The plot thickens from there, with Brody discovering that there was one survivor of that Concorde crash: Jean (Mimsy Farmer), a flight attendant (because who else was going to get the pilots’ coffee?) now being held captive by gangsters who are using her to blackmail Cotten—who pays them as part of “the cost of doing business.” Can Brody rescue Jean and escape the gangsters in time to thwart Cotten’s sabotage of another Concorde flight out of the U.K.?

Though hardly a great movie, “Concorde Affaire ’79” is far better than it has any right to be (and 10 times better than “The Concorde: Airport ’79,” as other reviewers have noted). It certainly has way more plot than expected though the storytelling is a bit rickety at times. Case in point is Brody acting surprised to discover the exact location of the Concorde wreckage as if this were some big secret. And apparently it is, as it’s revealed the gangsters are actually Cotten’s henchmen, sent to destroy all traces of the wreckage. Guess the FAA didn’t waste too much time investigating plane crashes in the late ’70s. Just as rickety is the way director Ruggero (“Cannibal Holocaust”) Deodato relies on stock footage for all scenes showing the Concorde in flight. Even worse are the unconvincing miniatures used to represent the plane at the bottom of the sea. Otherwise, Deodato does a competent job in the director’s chair, seldom letting the movie’s pace drop below a cruising altitude. Incidentally, though helmed by a man known for including liberal amounts of gore, sex and nudity in his other movies, “Concorde Affaire ’79” is strictly PG-13, with no sex, little gore and even less skin (Franciscus wearing a Speedo is as close as you’ll get to nudity, though at times Farmer’s billowing white blouse barely covers her breasts).

Franciscus brings the swagger and rugged charisma a role such as Brody requires (think of him as a half-priced Steve McQueen, or a younger, cheaper Charlton Heston), his performance really elevating the movie’s entertainment value. Cotten and Edmund Purdom do little more than wait for their paychecks. Van Johnson, another Hollywood legend, at least invests a little effort in his small part as the pilot of that second doomed Concorde flight. Farmer is under-utilized in a damsel-in-distress role, though she does get to freak out a couple times (“I… CAN’T REMEMBER!”). It also appears Farmer wasn’t available for all her scenes as an obvious stand-in is used for Jean’s first scenes aboard the test flight. Also look for ’70s porn stars Michael Gaunt, Jake Teague and Robert Kerman (a.k.a. R. Bolla) as London air traffic controllers, speaking with dubbed English accents.

Italian thriller only for die-hard Euro buffs
Fans of the Italian film scene will no doubt be aware that despite all of the imaginative highs, a fair amount of cheap knock-offs of popular movies have been made in the land of pizza and pasta over the years. SOS CONCORDE is one of these movies, a yawningly routine variation on the ’70s disaster movie staple which was released in the same year and with a similar title to a genuine American disaster film in an attempt to fool viewers into thinking the films were one and the same. Although not an entirely worthless film, this is doubly disappointing when considering the wonderful staple cast and crew behind the movie, all of whom had been involved in (and were later involved in) much better, more wonderful things. Not only did top giallo screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi work on the script, but infamous horror director Ruggero Deodato (here called “Roger Deodata”), best known for his highly controversial film CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, helmed the movie. Sadly the direction is weak at best, with little being made of the various suspenseful situations or action.

The stalwart cast sees James Franciscus headlining as the dashing heroic lead, a vain reporter seeking out a conspiracy behind a missing Concorde and finding himself pursued by various shifty henchmen, all invariably smartly dressed, slightly sweaty, unshaven, and with sinister glasses. Although there is plenty of scope for action, only towards the end of the movie does the film deliver with an exciting shoot-out in a bank and a couple of cool stunts and car chases. Also, for the film’s finale, we are offered a genuine disaster situation, with a Concorde loaded with passengers racing towards destruction unless our hero can save it. Somewhat contrivedly, the key lies in an amnesia victim’s memory, a former stewardess who must try to remember the reason the first plane crashed. A once-youthful Mimsy Farmer plays the too-often hysterical stewardess but seems miscast in the part.

Of course, ripping off an AIRPORT-style disaster movie wasn’t enough, so in come scenes similar to those in JAWS and THE DEEP, two films which fuelled the late ’70s underwater adventure genre. Lots of slow scuba-diving is involved, along with a killer shark and a wonderfully gruesome death for a diver, who is shot through the head from behind with a high-powered rifle, resulting in a huge wash of blood pouring from his shattered goggles. Sadly this is the film’s only gory moment, again something of a surprise considering the director’s filmography, although there is another cheesy moment in which an unlucky fisherman (played by a cameoing Dakkar from ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS) is mowed down by a speedboat. Other casting dependables include an ancient Joseph Cotton as one of the shady executives behind the Concorde, and his partner, the ever-hammy Edmund Purdom; Van Johnson as the unlikely pilot-in-peril; even Robert Kerman popping up for the finale as an air traffic controller who helps to guide the plane to safety. Yet despite the cast and scope for mucho excitement, the pacing is sluggish throughout, the scripting often uninteresting, and the special effects cheap, minimal and cheesy. Therefore only die-hard Euro buffs need to bother seeking this one out.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Ruggero Deodato
Writer Alberto Fioretti, Renzo Genta, Ernesto Gastaldi
Actors James Franciscus, Mimsy Farmer, Venantino Venantini
Country Italy
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Luciano Vittori, Roma, Italy
Film Length 2,620 m
Negative Format 35 mm (2-perf)
Cinematographic Process Techniscope
Printed Film Format 35 mm