Today’s movie is an adventure film with a scene set on
February 1. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
RESCUE DAWN
On February 1, 1966, [6:46 to 14:11] Dieter Dengler, a US
Navy pilot flying his very first top secret mission over Laos is hit by enemy
machine gun fire and he has to make a crash landing behind enemy lines. He
evades capture for a time, but is eventually taken prisoner. Dengler is
tortured by his captors. He is finally put in a camp with two other Americans
and three Asian employees of the CIA’s ‘Air America’. They are handcuffed and restrained at night, but Dengler gets a
nail that he uses to pick the cuff locks. Dengler has to do a lot of persuading
to convince the other demoralized prisoners to try and escape. They agree after they learn the guards plan
to kill them all. Dengler and Martin separate from the others and build a raft
to float down to the Mekong river. Some villagers kill Martin, but Dengler gets
away. He is finally picked up by a rescue helicopter. Dengler is treated as the
only patient in a military hospital
ward and debriefed by the CIA. Some of the crewmen from his carrier smuggle him
out of the hospital and back to the ship.
A decent film. The story is similar to others such as Bridge
on the River Kwai and Bat*21. Bale gives a good performance as
Dengler.
Hero Found by Bruce Henderson (HarperCollins, New
York, 2010) at page 119 gives the date he was shot down,
Producers - Freddy Braidy, Jimmy De Brabant, Michael
Dounaev, Gerald Green, Kami Naghdi, Nick N. Raslan and Elie Samaha
Director - Werner Herzog
Screenplay - Werner Herzog
Runtime – 2 hours 5 minutes
Released – September 9, 2006
Starring –
Christian Bale as Dieter Dengler
Steve Zahn as Duane W. Martin
Jeremy Davies as Gene DeBruin
Marshall Bell as Admiral Berrington
François Chau as Province Governor
Craig Gellis as Corporal
Zach Grenier as Squad Leader
Pat Healy as Norman
Toby Huss as Spook
Yuttana Muenwaja as Crazy Horse
Teerawat Mulvilai as Little Hitler
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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