Movie
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1988-07-21
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Genres
- Action, War, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- TriStar Pictures, Vision PDG
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- 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
Crew
- Peter Markle - Director
- William C. Anderson - Screenplay
- George Gordon - Screenplay
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