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An Unlikely Weapon (2008) -- Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, Six American Presidents, and every major film star of the last 50 years.  History would be changed through his lens.  But the person Eddie found hardest to impress was himself.

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Writer:
Susan Morgan Cooper (screenplay)
Release Date:
10 April 2009 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerrilla point black... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story
 (From Vanity Fair. 14 April 2009, 12:10 PM, PDT)

Terrific Trailer for the Documentary 'An Unlikely Weapon'
 (From Get The Big Picture. 13 April 2009, 12:18 AM, PDT)

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Cast

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Eddie Adams ... Himself

Marc Anthony ... Himself
Peter Arnett ... Himself
Tom Brokaw ... Himself

Bill Clinton ... Himself
Bill Eppridge ... Himself

Peter Jennings ... Himself
Kerry Kennedy ... Herself

David Hume Kennerly ... Himself

Gordon Parks ... Himself
Thi Kim Phuc Phan ... Herself
Morley Safer ... Himself

Rod Steiger ... Himself (archive footage)

Kiefer Sutherland ... Narrator

Tracey Ullman ... Herself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
This motion picture is worth more than 1,000 words, 16 June 2008
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Author: Jeff Beachnau (beachna9@msu.edu) from Omena, Michigan

Very interesting documentary about Eddie Adams, the legendary photographer whose career spanned 13 wars, 6 US presidents, and 50 years of movie stars. His most famous picture is that of a Vietcong being shot during the war by a Saigon police chief.

His friends and co-workers talk about Adams, who died a few years ago, and say how much he influenced them and how much his photos influenced the American people. There are a lot of interviews with Adams before he died that the director found while rummaging through piles of tapes in Adams' photo studio. People like Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw and Kim Phuc (she was the girl running naked on the street during Vietnam with severe burns) are interviewed as well.

The stories of his time in Vietnam are amazing, especially the moment he took that famous photograph. Apparently that photograph is what influenced Michael Cimino to make The Deer Hunter.

I also had no idea that among other things, Adams is the one who took the photo of Clint Eastwood that became the poster for Unforgiven.

This was a great documentary, I really enjoyed it.

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