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Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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Joaquim de Almeida
- The Soldier's Forceas The Soldier's Force
- (as Joaquim DeAlmeida)
Bill Anagnos
- Truck Driveras Truck Driver
- (as William Anagos)
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Gerald Aleck Cantor
- Customs Officeras Customs Officer
- (as Gerald Cantor)
Anthony Cecere
- Nuclear Guardas Nuclear Guard
- (as Tony Cecere)
Al Cerullo
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- (as Al Cerullo Jr.)
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The Russians steal a nuclear device and are stating that unless the Israelis pull out from the West bank, they will detonate it, which they have planted in an oil field and if it should go off; 50% of the World's oil will be contaminated. And the Israelis are unwilling to cooperate and the Americans knowing that they can't allow this are making preparations to force the Israelis off the West bank. The President then calls the Director of the CIA to do something about this. The Director assigns the agent who works outside the official channels codenamed the Soldier. He starts by trying to see if the Russians are indeed behind it but the Russians have him marked for termination. When he tries to contact the Director, the Russians placed a bomb in his office that leaves the soldier with no one but his team and the Israelis to help him. —rcs0411@yahoo.com
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- Code Name: The Soldier. You don't assign him. You unleash him.
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- R
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Did you know
- TriviaDirector James Glickenhaus' later 1988 movie Shakedown (1988) has The Soldier (1982) being played at the 42nd Street grind-house theater where Sam Elliot visits.
- GoofsDuring the KGB Training Camp scenes in Minsk there is an AM General M715 and a late 1970s GM station wagon seen in the camp.
- Quotes
The Soldier's Force: You've Got Two Choices... Duck Or Bleed
- Alternate versionsThe UK cinema version was cut by 4 secs to remove blood spurts from stomach and head shootings though video releases lost a further minute from a scene where a light bulb is fitted with a booby trapped bomb which explodes later. The 2004 Cinema Club DVD restored the cinema cuts but retained 1 min 17 secs of edits to the bomb-making scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shakedown (1988)
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Although the actors did a professional, best-that-they-could job with "The Soldier", we are asked to believe that, given the circumstances, the United States would launch a nuclear attack against Israel. Added to this insult to both intelligence and patriotism is the concept that US Armed Forces would transport nuclear material with only two, count 'em, two LTD's as escorts. Ofcourse, if you're ready to believe that, then you'll have no trouble with the ( only ) three men it takes to highjack the plutonium. Then again, it only takes the same amount of guys to - get this - sneak into an Air Force missile base and commandeer a missile silo. Not to worry, though, they're on our side and they are aiming the mega - death at Moscow. Given the anti - American sentiment of the film, it's amazing that they're not pointing the ICBM at the Rose Garden.
In fact, the producers again and again seem to see the US as either brain - dead or totally amoral, though the former attempt a visual disclaimer by having the hero and heroine wind up at the Statue of Liberty. The real heroes, the Twin Towers, stand painfully in the background.
A positive note, though: the producers did have the good taste to include a Porsche Turbo. However, in another hole big enough to drive a semi through, the Porsche isn't able to outrun a Jeep!
Perhaps, the producers were aiming for some kind avant - garde satire, for
add to all this a Jewish interrogator - dominatrix. Gotta be an avant - garde satire. If only they could have afforded Woody Allen.
In fact, the producers again and again seem to see the US as either brain - dead or totally amoral, though the former attempt a visual disclaimer by having the hero and heroine wind up at the Statue of Liberty. The real heroes, the Twin Towers, stand painfully in the background.
A positive note, though: the producers did have the good taste to include a Porsche Turbo. However, in another hole big enough to drive a semi through, the Porsche isn't able to outrun a Jeep!
Perhaps, the producers were aiming for some kind avant - garde satire, for
add to all this a Jewish interrogator - dominatrix. Gotta be an avant - garde satire. If only they could have afforded Woody Allen.
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- JohnFontaine
- Jul 22, 2002
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- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,328,816
- Gross worldwide
- $6,328,816
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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