BAT 21 [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: Lt. Colonel Iceal Hambleton (Gene Hackman) is a respected, middle-aged strategist who has only seen the war from the air - and high in the air, too. During one reconnaissance mission, however, he's shot down behind enemy lines for the first time. Scared and out of his element, Hambleton must rely on Captain Clark (Danny Glover), a pilot, to help him keep his composure until a rescue can happen.; ; ; When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal 'Gene' Hambleton (Played by Gene Hackman) parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly rescue is revealed for the first time by a decorated Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran. Involving personnel from all services, including the Coast Guard, the unorthodox rescue operation claimed the lives of eleven soldiers and airmen, destroyed or damaged several aircraft, and put hundreds of airmen, a secret commando unit, and a South Vietnamese infantry division at risk. The book 'The Rescue of BAT 21' (Which this movie is based upon) also examines the thorny debates arising from an operation that balanced one man's life against mounting U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties and material losses, the operation's impact on one of the most critical battles of the war, and the role played by search and rescue as America disengaged from that war.
• Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner, Erich Anderson, Joe Dorsey, Michael Ng, Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong, Don Ruffin, Scott Howell, Michael Raden, Timothy Fitzgerald, Stuart B. Hagen, Jeffrey Baxter, Alan King, Bonny Yong, Willie Lai, Martin Yong, Jim Aman, Freddie Chin, Dennis Chong, Liow Hui Chun, Fung Yun Khiong, Henry Lee, Ming-yang Li, Jeffrey Liew, Fredolin Leong, Benedict Lojingkau, Walter Lojingkau, Johnny Michael, Clarence Mojikon, Wilod Nuin, Harold Sinpang, Paul Yong, Conidon Wong, Craig Huston, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, Peter Markle, William C. Anderson, George Gordon
• Director: Peter Markle
• Runtime: 1:45
• Company: 20th Century Fox, MGM, Kino Lorber
• Media Format: Movie