Ocean's Thirteen (2007) - Steven Soderbergh's caper movie about a Las Vegas casino heist is the second sequel to
Ocean's Eleven (2001), itself a remake of a 'Rat Pack'
crime comedy from 1960. This production features a Bell 430 helicopter, used by the gang of conmen for stealing a collection of diamonds by hoisting
the sealed vault up through the ceiling after the chopper lands on the building and then blows a hole in the rooftop.
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Octopussy (1983) -
"in this James Bond movie, an Aerospatiale SA 316 Alouette III, uniquely equipped with floats, takes 007 (Roger Moore) to New Delhi, India.
Also, a Eurocopter AS 365C Dauphin brings General Orlov to Kamal's castle, and later is used to chase down the fleeing General Orlov." -
NATHAN DECKER
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The Omega Man (1971) - Boris Sagal's film of Richard Matheson's sci-fi horror novel, I Am Legend, has a flashback scene where the
hero (Charlton Heston) survives a crash in a Bell 47G-2 crash that's caused by a deadly virus suddenly infecting and overcoming the pilot. The
helicopter spirals down, while Heston struggle with the controls, but the actual crash landing occurs off-screen and we only see an explosion,
then the sequence jumps to Heston crawling away from burning wreckage.
On Deadly Ground (1994) - in the opening scenes, a helicopter (Era Aviation's Bell 412EP) brings help to the site of an Alaskan oil-rig fire,
before it transports the company executive (Michael Caine) over snowy landscapes, and then his corporate thugs into an Eskimo village. Later, a
team of airborne mercenaries hired to kill the hero (Steven Seagal) use a Bell Huey gunship with hi-tech scanners to find him in dense woodlands,
but the explosion of an ammo dump at a mountain shack destroys the bad guys' chopper. In another scene, the hero shoots the tail rotor off a Bell
206 JetRanger.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - in this James
Bond film, 007 is played by George Lazenby (surely the weakest ever Bond?), and our superhero spy gets married to a Spanish heiress (amusingly
portrayed by Diana Rigg).
We see a Bell 206 JetRanger flying Bond up to Blofeld's mountain stronghold. Near the end,
Bond and his future father-in-law assault Bolfeld's stronghold using three Agusta-Bell 204 'Hueys'
(operated by Heliswiss). - NATHAN DECKER / IAN VINCENT FRAIN
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Opera (aka: Terror At The Opera, 1987) - one of
Dario Argento's genre masterpieces, this mystery horror movie features helicopter air support that helps police search the countryside for a killer
on the run.
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The Other Guys (2010) - this comedy actioner about New York cops features an Aerospatiale AS355-F2 TwinStar, which eventually crashes in
the city.
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The Oxford Murders (2008) - this British crime drama and mystery movie features a police helicopter (a Eurocopter AS-355) tracking a bus.
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