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''The Night They Took Miss Beautiful'' is a 1977 television film appearing on the NBC network that was one of several produced by Don Kirshner. The film features a large amount of stars in a story about "skyjacking beauty queens" on a Consolidated PBY Catalina. The passengers include five beauty pageant contestants, their entourage, and a secret agent courier carrying a vial of a secret and highly fatal biological warfare toxin that if opened can cause a pandemic.〔Taylor 2015, p. 98.〕 ==Plot== Following a Miss Universe style contest in Miami, Florida, the five semi-finalists are flown to Nassau, Bahamas in a flying boat along with the American contestant's stage mother, the group's escort Kate Malloy (Stella Stevens), the Miss Beautiful Master of Ceremonies Marv Barker (Phil Silvers), and a deadheading pilot, Paul Fabiani (Gary Collins). At the airport no one notices notice two men in flight mechanic's coveralls board the aircraft and conceal themselves on board. Once on board the two men, members of a Symbionese Liberation Army type revolutionary terrorist group hijack the aircraft killing the co-pilot when he attempts to warn of the aircraft hijacking through the aircraft's radio. The surviving pilot lowers the aircraft to 200 feet to avoid radar and lands on a small uninhabited island that has surviving buildings from World War II. What the two terrorists do not know, is that a deadly contagious nerve agent that could be used in biological warfare is being carried on board. Awaiting the kidnapped passengers is Layla Burden (Sheree North), de facto leader of the terrorists who will hold the group until a US$5 Million ransom is paid, or the captives will be killed one by one. Back at the small Miami airport where the flying boat left, the security manager Mike O'Toole (Chuck Connors) meets two government agents, who are not from the Federal Bureau of Investigation but from an unnamed government agency with higher authority. They convince O'Toole of their authority and ensure his cooperation when a phone call from an important individual, presumably the President of the United States convinces O'Toole of the seriousness of the situation. The two agents are accompanied by several soldiers wearing American combat uniforms without insignia carrying automatic weapons. O'Toole is shocked that the government agents not only have no intention of paying the ransom, but at the next radio transmission of the terrorists stating their demands will use the fix on their radio position to launch an airstrike to kill the lot of them, including the hostages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Night They Took Miss Beautiful」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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