When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base.
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
rescue
government
airplane
general
parent child relationship
dictator
missile
cold war
patriotism
pilot
u.s. air force
colonel
aerial combat
execution
desert
radical
oil refinery
behind enemy lines
military
air force base
warplane
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Cast
Louis Gossett Jr.
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Jason Gedrick
Doug Masters
David Suchet
Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
Tim Thomerson
Col. Ted Masters
Larry B. Scott
Reggie
Caroline Lagerfelt
Elizabeth Masters
Jerry Levine
Tony
Robbie Rist
Milo Bazen
Michael Bowen
Knotcher
Robert Jayne
Matthew 'Matt' Masters
Melora Hardin
Katie
Michael Alldredge
Col. Blackburn
Crew
Sidney J. Furie
Director
Sidney J. Furie
Screenplay
Basil Poledouris
Original Music Composer
Adam Greenberg
Director of Photography
Doc Duhame
Stunts
Popular Reviews
13 reviews
MechaniChris
4.0★ · 04/10/23
Red Dawn by way of Top Gun sounds cool, but really it’s just about a teenager who steals a 100 million dollar plane to go kill dozens of people in NONDISCLOSED middle eastern country (probably starting a war) and somehow doesn’t go to prison for the rest of his life.
Red Dawn by way of Top Gun sounds cool, but really it’s just about a teenager who steals a 100 million dollar plane to go kill dozens of people in NONDISCLOSED middle eastern country (probably starting a war) and somehow doesn’t go to prison for the rest of his life.
