Hangar 18

Hangar 18 (1980)

It started with an accident in space . . . and led to the terrifying secret in . . . HANGAR 18

During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.

Date of release
1980-07-01
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (84)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Director
James L. Conway

Casting

Interesting facts

Hangar 18 is a 1980 American science fiction action film directed by James L. Conway and written by Ken Pettus, from a story by Thomas C. Chapman and Conway. It stars Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, Joseph Campanella, James Hampton, Tom Hallick, and Pamela Bellwood.

Production

The film was both produced and released by Sunn Classic Pictures, an American independent film studio and distributor known mainly in the 1970s for speculative documentary films about Bigfoot, ancient astronauts, near death experiences, the Bermuda Triangle, with titles such as In Search of Noah's Ark and In Search of Historic Jesus."

By 1980, director James L. Conway and three of the four writers were Sunn veterans, but this was Sunn's first attempt at a conspiracy science fiction film in the vein of Capricorn One, released two years earlier. The story is derived from the Roswell incident and contemporary rumors about Area 51.

Beyond the conspiracy source material above, Jim Knipfel identifies homages to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and "several" episodes of The Twilight Zone, as well as a nod to Nigel Kneale's Quatermass and others.

Shooting took place in Midland and Big Spring, Texas, and at the former Pyote Air Force Base, as well as the former Webb Air Force Base. Filming also took place in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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