The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper
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.
Plot
On a clear day in 1971, the hijacker identified as D.B. Cooper jumps from an airliner by using the rear exit, parachuting into a forest in Washington State. The man is later identified as Jim Meade, a military veteran with big dreams. Meade escapes the manhunt using a Jeep that he had previously hidden in the forest and concealing the money that he has stolen in the carcass of a deer. He meets his estranged wife Hannah, who operates a river rafting company. Meade is being hunted by Bill Gruen, an insurance investigator who was Meade's army sergeant, and Meade's army buddy Remson, who remembered Meade talking about hijacking an aircraft.
More details
author | Jeffrey Alan Fiskin |
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contentLocation | Washington |
director | Roger Spottiswoode |
editor | Allan Jacobs Robbe Roberts |
events | aviation |
genre | crime thriller |
keywords | aerial application aircraft boneyard army sergeant big dreams biplane boeing boeing-stearman model 75 boeing-stearman pt-17 cropduster db cooper estranged wife hijack hot air balloon hunt insurance investigator jeep military veteran parachute raft river stolen cars stolen money talk washington state willys mb |
musicBy | James Horner |
producer | Daniel Wigutow Michael Taylor |
productionCompany | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
publisher | Universal Pictures |
theme | chase heist |