Deliver Us from Evil

Deliver Us from Evil is a 1973 American made-for-television crime drama film starring George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent and Bradford Dillman. It originally aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on September 11, 1973. The film's synopsis is probably inspired from the real-life skyjacker "D. B. Cooper" who on November 24, 1971, hijacked an airliner, extorting US$200,000 and then parachuted out of the plane never to be seen again. Plot It tells the story of six male hikers in the mountains who kill a parachuting skyjacker and fight between themselves over his stolen $600,000. Cast George Kennedy as Walter "Cowboy" Mcadams Jan-Michael Vincent as Nick Fleming Jim Davis as Dixie Jack Weston as Al Zabrocki Bradford Dillman as Steven Dennis Charles Aidman as Arnold Fleming Allen Pinson as Skyjacker Production The film was originally called Fair Game. It was shot in Mount Hood in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. "It's a masculine film, shot against the masculine country essential to an action-suspense drama," write Kennedy. "We expect it to be compared with The Treasure of Sierra Madre."