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Title: Tank (1984)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| James Garner | ... | Zack | |
| Shirley Jones | ... | LaDonna | |
| C. Thomas Howell | ... | Billy | |
| Mark Herrier | ... | Elliott | |
| Sandy Ward | ... | General Hubik | |
| Jenilee Harrison | ... | Sarah | |
| James Cromwell | ... | Deputy Euclid | |
| Dorian Harewood | ... | Sergeant Tippet | |
| G.D. Spradlin | ... | Sheriff Buelton | |
| John Hancock | ... | Mess Sergeant | |
| Guy Boyd | ... | Sgt. Wimofsky | |
| Dan Albright | ... | T.V. Reporter #1 (as Daniel Albright) | |
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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 |
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
I enjoyed this movie, by the looks of the score I am a bit alone in my opinion of this film. The story has a guy in the army who somehow owns his own personal tank moving onto a new army base. I am rather sure they probably explained how he had his own tank, but it has been awhile since I last saw this film so I do not remember parts of it all that well. What I do know is that one evening James Garner's character (the one with the tank) goes into town and ends up taking out a deputy. This infuriates the sheriff of the town and he wants revenge. He seems to have some problem with the military folk and it is against the law to punch a cop even one who deserves it. Of course, this part of the film makes little sense to me, usually a southern town like the one depicted here would embrace the military and be patriotic even bashing the lawman for bruising the army guys hand or something. Same strange hatred of the military appeared in the film "First Blood". Most of these bases also offer jobs to the locals and provide income as a lot of military guys have a lot of money to spend on frivolous things. That aside the sheriff gets his hands on the army guy's son and now the army guy is ticked, so ticked he uses his tank to break his son out of a boot camp style prison. A cross state chase soon occurs as they know they will not get a fair trail where they are so they head to either the next county or state, do not recall which. Some good humor to follow along with some good action. The movie gets a bit to heavy handed near the end and the thing with the dad getting his ribs broke was a bit to much, but all in all I found this movie quite enjoyable.