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Fatal Sky (1990)

Country of Origin: USA / Australia / Yugoslavia
Year of Production: 1990
Running Times: 89 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: International Film Entertainment / Jadran Film
Executive Producers: Arnie Fishman, Paul Lichtman, Larry Sugar
Producers: Antony I. Ginnane, Stephen Strick
Line Producer:
Basil Appleby

SCRIPT
Script: Anthony Able (real name: David Webb Peoples)
Story: Brian Williams, David White, Anthony Able (real name: David Webb Peoples)

DIRECTION
Director: Frank Shields

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Richard Michalak
Key Grip: Marijan Marcius
Dolly Grip: Tomislav Marcius
Grip: Andrija Milic

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Leslie Rosenthal

MUSIC
Music: Allan Zavod

VISUAL EFFECTS
Rotoscoping: Bret Mixon

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountant: Jim Hajicosta
Production Associate: Frederick Bailey

LOCATIONS
Locations: Mydral Forest, Norway; Oslo, Norway

CASTING
Casting: Rosemary Welden

CAST
Michael Nouri (Jeff Milker)
Darlanne Fluegel (Phyllis 'Bird' McNamara)
Maxwell Caulfield (George Abbott)
Derren Nesbitt (Arthur Corbin)
Ray Charleson (Dr Bannister)
Sebastian Allen (Beggs)
Charles Durning (Colonel Clancy)
Ena Begovic (Mrs Sumner)
Frano Lasic (Captain Bergen)
Janez Vajevec (Sumner)
Damir Saban (Elgersund)
Dusko Valentic (air controller)
Damir Mejovsek (Professor Stein)
Igor Serdar (Angelo)
Sreten Mokrovic (newsstand vendor)
Ksenija Marinkovic (stewardess)
Branko Blace (guard 1)
Rene Medvesek (journalist)
Vjenceslav Kapural (farmer)
Predrag Petrovic (Viktor)
Filip Nola (charter pilot)
Jasna Bilusic (photo shop assistant)
Morel Bernard (TV anchorwoman)
Dani Segina (photo shop manager)
Brano Menicanin (angry driver)
Perica Martinovic (woman in street)
Michael Latimer (Beckwith)
Zeljko Konigsknecht (pilot at bar)
Nada Arbus (barmaid)
Olga Pivac (old gypsy woman)
Slavica Knezevic (young gypsy woman)
Zarko Savic (gypsy 1)
Frederick Bailey (intelligence officer)
Boris Bakal (paramedic 1)
Sinisa Miletic (paramedic 2)
Edita Lipovsek (nurse 1)
Jadranka Matkovic (nurse 2)
Natasa Maricic (hospital receptionist)
Ljubo Zecevic (guard 2)
Darko Janes (adjutant)
Vladimir Puhalo (lab doctor 1)
Rickard Simonelli (lab doctor 2)
Arsen Ostojic (lab guard)
Zdenka Hersak (flower seller)
Semka Sokolovic (lady in phone booth)

SUMMARY

A military aircraft crashes in Norway after an encounter with a UFO. A pair of journalists team up with a pilot to try to get to the truth as the military try to cover up the incident. But as a mystery illness breaks out in the area around the crash site, the truth could prove hard to contain...

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Vidmark Entertainment

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: R

POSTER TAGS

There's something out there

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

No Cause for Alarm
Project Alien
Fatal Sky - Sie bringen den Tod
- German title
Tuhoisa taivas - Finnish title
UFO - pioggia mortale - Italian title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Cinema Papers no.77 (January 1990) p.74
credits

Sight and Sound vol.1 no.4 (August 1991) p.60 (UK)
review

Variety 30 May 1990 pp.24-25 (USA)
credits, review

KEYWORDS

ufos, conspiracies, air crashes, air force, military, cover-ups, journalists, pilots, norway, alien abductions, biological weapons, cattle mutilations


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