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Zack
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| Shirley Jones | ... |
LaDonna
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| C. Thomas Howell | ... |
Billy
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Mark Herrier | ... |
Elliott
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Sandy Ward | ... |
General Hubik
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| Jenilee Harrison | ... |
Sarah
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| James Cromwell | ... |
Deputy Euclid
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| Dorian Harewood | ... |
Sergeant Tippet
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| G.D. Spradlin | ... |
Sheriff Buelton
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| John Hancock | ... |
Mess Sergeant
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| Guy Boyd | ... |
Sgt. Wimofsky
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Dan Albright | ... |
T.V. Reporter #1
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Gerald A. Atkins | ... |
Food Server
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Ron Baskin | ... |
Deputy #1
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Keith Jerome Brown | ... |
Tank Motor Pool Man
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Sergeant Major Zak Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zak doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's accustomed to. So he goes off base to get a beer. When he goes to the bar one of the local prostitutes tries to come on to Zak but Zak turns her down. That's when the deputy who appears to be her pimp beating her up. That's when Zak strikes him. Later he learns that the Sheriff is corrupt and takes what happened to the Deputy as an attack on him and tries to get Zak but the Army backs him and Zak is not intimidated. That's when they arrest his son on trumped up drug charges. Before Zak can fix it, his wife tries to get a lawyer for their son but this only pushes the Sheriff to send their son to a prison farm. With no other recourse Zak gets into his own vintage Sherman Tank and busts his son out and they try to make it to the state line so that they can expose the Sheriff. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
If you can ignore the dopey ending, the movie has some very nice surprises best of which is the incredible performance of GD Spradlin as the sheriff. This may be a lightweight movie but he does not throw away his role. He's genuinely scary and believable as the tyrannical sheriff. Jenilee Harrison is also at her most sexy in 1984. She was a mouthwatering beauty back then! The film rolls along pretty blandly but the scenes with C. Thomas Howell getting framed are pretty well done and plausible. If you can get over the guy owning his own Sherman tank, the decision to use it makes at least some sense by that point in the movie.