Bat★21

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.

Cast

Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman

as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

Danny Glover

Danny Glover

as Capt. Bartholomew Clark

Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed

as Col. George Walker

David Marshall Grant

David Marshall Grant

as Ross Carver

Clayton Rohner

Clayton Rohner

as Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh

Erich Anderson

Erich Anderson

as Major Jake Scott

Joe Dorsey

Joe Dorsey

as Col. Douglass

Michael Ng

Michael Ng

as Vietnamese Man (as Rev. Michael Ng)

Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong

Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong

as Boy on Bridge

Don Ruffin

Don Ruffin

as Helicopter Crew

Reviews

kevin2019

"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 miscalcul...

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