Sunday, February 1, 2015

February 1 - Rescue Dawn

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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