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Operation Dumbo Drop

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Original title

Operation Dumbo Drop

Year

1995

Running time

102 min.

Country

United States

Director

Simon Wincer

Screenwriter

Gene Quintano, Jim Kouf

Cast

Music

David Newman

Cinematography

Russell Boyd

Producer

Walt Disney Pictures, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Interscope Communications

Genre

Comedy. War | Vietnam war. Animals

Synopsis

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.

Critics' reviews

"The movie makes a worthwhile attempt to break down some thick emotional walls and, at the same time, tell a good story"

Chicago Tribune
"A well-crafted and entertaining pic"

Joe Leydon: Variety
"On the one hand, it's a diverting entertainment for children and young adults; on the other, it's a ludicrous fantasy about a war whose complexities cannot be contained by facile metaphors"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"Under Simon Wincer's brisk, efficient direction, Glover, Liotta, Leary, et al., give the kind of full-bodied portrayals essential to making basically formulaic material come alive"

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
"'Operation Dumbo Drop' is a disastrous miscalculation that leaves the viewer with only one burning thought: 'What the hell were they thinking?'"

Joey O'Bryan: Austin Chronicle

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Operation Dumbo Drop

1995

Simon Wincer

4.2

(3,616)