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21/07/1988 Action, War, Drama 1h 45m
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Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him.

Overview

Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.

  1. Peter Markle

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gene Hackman

    Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

  2. Danny Glover

    Capt. Bartholomew Clark

  3. Jerry Reed

    Col. George Walker

  4. David Marshall Grant

    Ross Carver

  5. Clayton Rohner

    Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh

  6. Erich Anderson

    Major Jake Scott

  7. Joe Dorsey

    Col. Douglass

  8. Michael Ng

    Vietnamese Man (as Rev. Michael Ng)

  9. Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong

    Boy on Bridge

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Reviews

A review by kevin2019
Written by kevin2019 on 2024-01-24
"BAT*21" is above all an exceptionally well made and very worthwhile film based upon a remarkable true story. The action sequences have been brought to the screen with the deliberate intention of not glamourising the necessary depiction of violence (to do otherwise would have been a lethal miscalculation). This film is also able to depict Hambleton's rescue as being a far from easy proposition and you constantly find yourself wondering if the mission will have a successful resolution at all, especially in light of the fact Hambleton is about to find himself caught in an area which is going to ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$3,966,256.00

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