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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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Tim Kelleher | ... |
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Scott N. Stevens | ... |
C-123 Co-Pilot
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Kevin LaRosa | ... |
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:
A story about big dreams and small miracles. See more »Parents Guide:
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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 Theodore White and Aretha Franklin
Performed by Aretha Franklin
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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Trivia
The Character Shop constructed a total of eight life size elephants to resemble the real one in the movie. See more »Goofs
During the last fight with the VC, the film changes from light to dark and back a few times. See more »Quotes
C-123 Pilot: [to the troops] Gentleman, I'm responsible for anything that goes in this cargo hold, now if that thing even twitches, you're gonna see an elephant fly.See more »
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"THINK"Written by Theodore White and Aretha Franklin
Performed by Aretha Franklin
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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This movie had some typically-good Disney aspects to it but also some typically- bad Disney agendas in here that just about made me puke.
With modern-day Disney films - or at least the ones in the 1980s and 1990s - you can expect the following "good" and "bad:" This movie proves to be no exception.
GOOD - Slick-looking photography with beautiful Vitenamese scenery; low profanity; an interesting story that moves well.
BAD - Political-correctness run amok......an annoying kid who knows more than the adults; an ending that's always drawn out too long; a reverence for Eastern religions or anything that is not Christianity; a black and a white lead character in which the black is always the better of the two, etc. etc.
A SURPRISE - Danny Glover and Ray Liotta losing their tempers but not swearing a blue streak. Wow, now that's different!