Bat★21

“Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him.”

6.3(207)19881h 45m

ActionWarDrama

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.

Director

Peter Markle

Revenue

$4.0M

Where to watch

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Cast

Gene Hackman

Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

Danny Glover

Capt. Bartholomew Clark

Jerry Reed

Col. George Walker

David Marshall Grant

Ross Carver

Clayton Rohner

Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh

Erich Anderson

Major Jake Scott

Joe Dorsey

Col. Douglass

Michael Ng

Vietnamese Man (as Rev. Michael Ng)

Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong

Boy on Bridge

Don Ruffin

Helicopter Crew

Scott Howell

Helicopter Crew

Michael Raden

Helicopter Crew

Reviews

1 review

kevin2019

2y ago

10.0

"BAT*21" is above all an exceptionally well made and very worthwhile film based upon a remarkable true story. The action sequences have been brought to the screen with the deliberate intention of not glamourising the necessary depiction of violence (to do otherwise would have been a lethal miscalculation). This film is also able to depict Hambleton's rescue as being a far from easy proposition and...