Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dange... Read allTaking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Director
- Writers
- William B. Breuer
- Hampton Sides(additional material)
- Carlo Bernard
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRichard Joson plays his own grandfather.
- GoofsIn the film the plane that flies over the camp to distract the guards is a Lockheed Hudson. In reality the plane used was a P-61 Black Widow. However, there are only five P-61s still in existence, none of which are airworthy. Therefore the filmmakers were forced to make the substitution.
- Quotes
General Kreuger: Henry, I'll be honest with you. This mission appeals more to my heart than to my head.
- Crazy creditsThe first part of the end credits are superimposed over actual footage of the American prisoners following their liberation.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Hannity & Colmes: Episode dated 12 August 2005 (2005)
- SoundtracksYou Go To My Head
Written by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots
Performed by Victoria Hamilton
Published by Toy Town Tunes, Inc. (ASCAP) and Gillespie Haven Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Sourcerer
I'd recommend this movie to anyone. Major criticisms seem to be that there's no deep complex characters and no protagonist. I think that is a positive for this movie because the POWs are the main characters themselves. The men and women just did what needed to be done for their countrymen and their country. There was deep motivation because someone had been scarred when they were 15 and thus acts this way. Most of the characters are real life people and you can't focus on one or two characters like in a fictional story that someone wrote.
It's too bad this movie won't do well at the office because it doesn't cater to the teens and their expendable income. The limited wide release also won't help it but I know for those who watch it they'll be touched. They'll know that there were and are sacrifices being made to ensure that the country they live in are safe and protected.
- jackov
- Aug 12, 2005
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Cuộc Đột Kích Vĩ Đại
- Filming locations
- Shanghai, China(Manila sequences)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,167,373
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,376,009
- Aug 14, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $10,777,375
- Runtime2 hours 12 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1