The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (1981)
- Original title
- The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
- Directed by
- Roger Spottiswoode
- Genre
- adventure film, crime film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 33 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacks a plane and parachutes away with ransom money. The film imagines what happened to him after he landed safely on the ground.
suspensefulfast-pacedadventuroustensegrittyaction-packedevocative
What happens
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper is a 1981 American crime thriller film about infamous aircraft hijacker D. B. Cooper, who escaped with $200,000 after leaping from the back of a Boeing 727 airliner on November 24, 1971. The bulk of the film fictionalizes Cooper's escape after he landed on the ground. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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