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Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) 4.7
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. Director:Simon Wincer |
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Capt. Sam Cahill
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Sp4 Harvey (H.A.) Ashford
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Sp5 Lawrence Farley
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Linh
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Goddard
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Hoang Ly | ... |
Colonel Nguyen
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Lt. Quang, NVA
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Colonel Pederson
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Y B'ham
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Jhon
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Irish, Huey Pilot #1
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During the Vietnam War, a village that American forces are using to spy on the Ho Chi Minh Trail has its sacred elephant killed by the North Vietnamese Army because they were cooperating with the Americans. The villagers need an elephant for a ceremony that will occur within the week. Captain Sam Cahill, an easygoing man who is heading home, and his hotheaded replacement Captain TC Doyle scrounge up another elephant with the help of sneaky supply chief warrant officer David Poole, luckless farmboy Lawrence Farley, and short-timer Harvey Ashford, and transport it across South Vietnam to get it to the village on time, running into all sorts of transport problems, personality conflicts, and an NVA squad that wants the Americans out of the village. Written by Jeff Cross <blackjac_1998@yahoo.com>
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elephant | vietnam | lifting someone into the air | cargo plane | child in danger |Taglines:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
28 July 1995 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dumbo Drop See more »Box Office
Gross:
$24,700,000 (USA)Company Credits
Production Co:
Walt Disney Pictures, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Interscope Communications See more »
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Written by Ned Washington and Oliver Wallace
Performed by Cliff Edwards, Jim Carmichael and the Hall-Johnson Choir
Courtesy of Walt Disney Records
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According to 'Rick Lazzarini', the elephant replicas looked so realistic, they fooled the real elephant when it saw them on the shooting location. See more »Goofs
When the soldiers jump out of the cargo plane before the Botat, the barrels of their rifles can be seen to be bending, indicating they are props. See more »Quotes
Capt. T.C. Doyle: [to Cahill, after the ceremony with Botat] When you're standing on a roof with your brother in Fort Lauderdale, I think you're really gonna enjoy the view.See more »
Soundtracks
"WHEN I SEE AN ELEPHANT FLY"Written by Ned Washington and Oliver Wallace
Performed by Cliff Edwards, Jim Carmichael and the Hall-Johnson Choir
Courtesy of Walt Disney Records
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Everything on Earth is accelerated by gravity at the same rate (about 10 meters per second per second), regardless of its mass, so heavy things fall as quickly as light things provided there is no air-resistance. As the elephant likely had a greater surface area, and thus more air resistance, a human (especially one consciously attempting to minimize air resistance) might have been able to catch it. Now as to the size of a parachute necessary for an elephant, I'll leave that as an exercise to you :)