"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 …
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Bat★21
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.
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Release date
21/07/1988
Votes
231
Popularity
1.5
Gene Hackman
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Danny Glover
Capt. Bartholomew Clark
Jerry Reed
Col. George Walker
David Marshall Grant
Ross Carver
Clayton Rohner
Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh
Erich Anderson
Major Jake Scott
Joe Dorsey
Col. Douglass
Michael Ng
Vietnamese Man (as Rev. Michael Ng)
Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong
Boy on Bridge
Don Ruffin
Helicopter Crew
Scott Howell
Helicopter Crew
Michael Raden
Helicopter Crew
Timothy Fitzgerald
EB-66 Officer
Stuart B. Hagen
EB-66 Officer (as Stuart Hagen)
Jeffrey Baxter
Helicopter Gunner (as Jeff Baxter)
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