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Writers (WGA):
James Morris (story)
Gene Quintano (written by) ...
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Release Date:
28 July 1995 (USA) more
Tagline:
When you weigh four tons, it's hard to be a secret weapon. more
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To keep the loyalty of a native village during the Vietnam war, a US Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant. full summary | add synopsis
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Disney goes to Vietnam more (19 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Danny Glover | ... | Capt. Sam Cahill |
 | Ray Liotta | ... | Capt. T.C. Doyle |
 | Denis Leary | ... | Lt. David Poole |
 | Doug E. Doug | ... | Sp4 Harvey (H.A.) Ashford |
 | Corin Nemec | ... | Sp5 Lawrence Farley |
| Dinh Thien Le | ... | Linh |
 | Tchéky Karyo | ... | Goddard (as Tcheky Karyo) |
| Hoang Ly | ... | Colonel Nguyen |
| Vo Trung Anh | ... | Lt. Quang, NVA |
 | Marshall Bell | ... | Colonel Pederson |
 | James Hong | ... | Y B'ham |
| Long Nguyen | ... | Jhon |
| Tim Kelleher | ... | C-123 Pilot |
| Scott N. Stevens | ... | C-123 Co-Pilot |
| Kevin LaRosa | ... | Irish, Huey Pilot #1 (as Kevin Larosa) |
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Also Known As:
Dumbo Drop
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MPAA:
Rated PG for war action and language.
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107 min | Finland:104 min
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Iceland:16 | South Korea:All | Germany:6 (f) | Philippines:G | Australia:PG | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | UK:PG (video premiere) | USA:PG | Singapore:PG
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Revealing mistakes: During the negotiations to buy Bo-Tat the insignia on Doyle's beret is reversed. The insignia is of the 5th Special Forces Group and is a diagonal yellow stripe with three scarlet stripes in it going from the top left (as seen by the observer) to the lower right.) Doyle's is going top right to lower left. (NOTE: It happens that the Vietnamese flag is yellow with three horizontal red stripes.) more
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Lihn: [really upset at the soldiers] You nice American? You think you're Number One? You Number Ten! more
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Werewolf (#10.4)" (1998) more
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QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ARIA more
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The Vietnam War makes a really unorthodox setting for a Disney movie, but this movie goes along quite well, thanks to its performances. Danny Glover and Ray Liotta star as the leaders of a rag-tag American platoon in charge of guarding an elephant and its young Vietnamese trainer on a trip to one part of the divided country to another.
Because of its family-friendly base, OPERATION DUMBO DROP plays it
safe with it's war violence. But who says you need bloody, graphic action in order to make a good war-oriented film? As long as the
performances are stellar, the film wins. Case in point is OPERATION DUMBO DROP.