Villains Beginning With 'C'

Charles Rane

Passenger 57 film (1992)

Charles Rane is an international terrorist who is about to undergo plastic surgery to change his appearance in order to evade the law. Unfortunately for him the plastic surgeon and his staff are in on the plan and have alerted the federal agents and SWAT teams who have come to arrest him. Rane makes his escape and after a harrowing chase through the city streets, is finally apprehended.

Haunted by the shooting death of his wife in a robbery, former police officer John Cutter has taken a job training flight attendants and security personnel in how to deal with dangerous situations including terrorists. During this particular session, his student is Marti Slayton, a flight attendant, and after she disobeys an instruction the pair have a brief confrontation.

Later, Cutter sees an old friend, Sly Delvecchio, who is there with a job offer: vice-president for the anti-terrorism unit at Atlantic International Airlines, a major carrier. Cutter is at first reluctant, but Delvecchio and one of the company executives manage to win him over during lunch.

Cutter boards Atlantic International Flight 163 to Los Angeles... and his new job. By coincidence, one of the flight attendants on this flight happens to be Marti. Also on board is Rane, in FBI custody, headed to Los Angeles to stand trial for his terrorist activities in the past. Several of Rane's men were aboard the plane, disguised as cabin crew or passengers.

Mid-flight, Rane manages to escape custody after a disguised flight attendant, shoots both FBI officers dead. Several other henchmen steal weapons from the dead officers and take the plane's passengers hostage. Cutter, in the lavatory during the takeover, manages to overpower one of Rane's men. Rane, however, responds by executing one of the passengers, making Cutter feel responsible for the man's death. Cutter and Marti manage to escape, taking the elevator to the plane's lower deck. Cutter then manages to initiate a fuel dump which forces the Lockheed L-1011 to land at a small Louisiana airfield.

Cutter manages to escape from the plane, but Marti is captured by another of Rane's men. Outside, Cutter is quickly apprehended by local sheriff's deputies.

Meanwhile, Rane has made contact with the local sheriff, Chief Biggs, and promises to release half the hostages in return for fuel and takeoff clearance. Rane also tells Biggs that Cutter is one of his men, a deserter. When the deputies bring Cutter before Chief Biggs, he orders him taken into custody.

As the passengers are being released, Rane and two of his men make their escape. Cutter overpowers the sheriff's deputies, frees himself from his handcuffs and gives chase on a police motorcycle. Meanwhile, a team of FBI agents arrive, and informs Chief Biggs of Cutter's true identity.

At the fair, Cutter manages to kill one of the henchmen and engage Rane in a fight just as police reinforcements arrive. Rane, however, tells the FBI and police that his remaining men aboard the plane will begin to execute the rest of the hostages if he is not returned to the plane and granted takeoff clearance.

A plan for FBI snipers to take down Rane as he boards the plane is made, upon which FBI teams will storm the plane and deal with his remaining men on board. As Rane boards the plane with an FBI escort, Cutter gives the order to fire. However, the sniper bullets hit Rane's FBI escort, not Rane. It is revealed that Rane's second henchman has taken the place of the FBI snipers, and he begins firing at the assembled police and agents. During the confusion, this henchman is killed, but not before Rane makes it safely aboard and the plane begins to take off.

With the help of Chief Biggs, Cutter barely manages to get aboard the moving plane via its landing gear. Once aboard, he quickly dispatches Rane's remaining two henchmen, then engages Rane in a prolonged fistfight. Gunfire in the cabin results in the main cabin door exploding outward, leaving the cabin open to the elements. This open door suction results in Rane plunging to his death.

The plane lands safely at the Louisiana airfield for the second time that day. Amid congratulations and celebration, Marti and Cutter make their quiet escape into the distance hand in hand.

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