Bat★21 (1988)

Name: Bat★21
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Released: 1988-07-21
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner

Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him.

ActionWarDrama

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.

Release Date: July 21, 1988
Runtime: 1h 45m
Rating: 6.3/10 (211 votes)

Director: Peter Markle

Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner, Erich Anderson, Joe Dorsey, Michael Ng

Production: TriStar Pictures, Vision PDG

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IMDb

Revenue: $4M

Full Cast (15 people)

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

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Reviews

kevin2019 - 10/10

"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...

January 24, 2024