Shootdown (film)

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Shootdown
Genre	Drama
Written by	Judy Merl; Paul Eric Myers
Directed by	Michael Pressman
Starring	Angela Lansbury; George Coe; Kyle Secor; Molly Hagan; Jennifer Savidge
Music by	Craig Safan
Country of origin	United States
Original languages	English; Russian
Production
Executive producers	Leonard Hill; Robert O'Connor
Producers	Judy Merl; Paul Eric Myers
Cinematography	William Wages
Editor	Daniel Cahn
Running time	100 minutes
Production company	Leonard Hill Films
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	November 28, 1988

Shootdown is a 1988 American made-for-television drama film starring Angela Lansbury. Leonard Hill served as the executive producer.

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In the film, Nan Moore (Lansbury) loses her son in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 disaster. She wishes to discover the truth about her son's death.

Angela Lansbury as Nan Moore
George Coe as David
Kyle Secor as John Moore
Molly Hagan as Elizabeth Moore
Jennifer Savidge as Mary
Diana Bellamy as Lillian
Alan Fudge as Bruce

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.^[1]

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