Main Cast: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec
Release Year: 1995
Country: US
Run Time: 107 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
This old fashioned service comedy is suitable for the whole family. It is set in Vietnam during the war and chronicles the efforts of a small band of Green Berets as they endeavor to help out a beleaguered village located next to a major supply route for the Viet Cong. The leader, Capt. Sam Cahill has been working overtime to create good relations between the American soldiers and the villagers so he can use their little town to monitor enemy activities. Unfortunately, Cahill is slated to retire and his replacement is shaping up to be the classic Ugly American. It is he who accidentally lets the North Vietnamese know that the hapless villagers have been harboring American soldiers. To punish them, the VC shoot the only elephant in the village. To help the villagers, Cahill goes against the wishes of the new leader and promises to replace the slaughtered beast in time for an important local ritual. The trouble is, the Americans have only five days in which to find and bring back an elephant; they find one, but it is 200 miles from the village. The men decide the only way to do it is to load the beast aboard a transport plane and send it to the village via parachute. Now all they have to do is figure how to engineer this feat. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Steve Spence - Art Director, Lisette Thomas - Art Director, Rick Lazzarini - Animator, Mike Fenton - Casting, Julie Ashton - Casting, Edward Gold - Co-producer, Penelope L. Foster - Co-producer, Rosanna Norton - Costume Designer, Simon Wincer - Director, O. Nicholas Brown - Editor, Robert W. Cort - Executive Producer, Ted Field - Executive Producer, David Newman - Composer (Music Score), David Newman - Songwriter, Diane Hammond - Makeup, Don Reddy - Camera Operator, Paul Peters - Production Designer, Russell Boyd - Cinematographer, David Madden - Producer, Diane Nabatoff - Producer, Jim Erickson - Set Designer, Ben Osmo - Sound/Sound Designer, Guy Norris - Stunts, Eugene Collier - Stunts, Tony Brubaker - Stunts, Brian Cox - Special Effects Supervisor, M. James Kouf Jr. - Screenwriter, Gene Quintano - Screenwriter, Lisa Satriano - Second Assistant Director
Operation Dumbo Drop is a 1995adventure film, that is loosely based on true events, as related by MAJ Jim Morris (USA, Ret.) which involved the U.S. Special Forces in 1968, in the tiny South Vietnamese village of Dak Nhe.
It's 1968, during the Vietnam War. A village that U.S. 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. Special ForcesCaptain Sam Cahill (Danny Glover), an easygoing man who is heading home, and his hotheaded replacement Special ForcesCaptain T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta) embark on a mission to scrounge up another elephant. Enlisting the aid of a sneaky Supply Chief Warrant Officer Three David Poole (Denis Leary), a luckless farmboy 101st AirborneSpecialist Five Lawrence Farley (Corin Nemec), and short-timer 101st AirborneSpecialist Four Harvey Ashford (Doug E. Doug), they transport the elephant across South Vietnam to get it to the village on time. Along the way, the unit encounters calamity and other misadventure as they attempt to transport their animal; not the least of which are transport problems, personality conflicts, and an NVA unit that want the Americans out of the village.
