Main Cast: Jason Miller, Cleavon Little, Terri Garber, Rodolfo De Anda, Douglas Warhit
Release Year: 1984
Country: US
Run Time: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Academy award-winner Tim Robbins makes his feature film debut in this 1984 thriller concerning a group of seven American college students held ransom by a rogue band of Central America guerillas. Ignoring the advice of their captain while taking a cruise around Central America, Beverly Hills rich girl Amy and her clueless friends unwisely venture off of the beaten path and deep into the vast jungle. Subsequently abducted by guerilla fighters and sentenced to death, the girls await their grim fate as Captain Sarge prepares to stage a daring rescue mission. Against all odds, Captain Sarge does manage to rescue Amy, though as the lucky survivor makes her way back to California she can't help thinking about the rest of her friends. When her efforts in convincing her wealthy father to fund a rescue mission fails, Amy rounds up a group of fearless neighborhood kids and implores Captain Sarge to lead them straight into the lion's den. With time quickly running out for the frightened hostages, seven American students and one hardened soldier of fortune rescue their friends and save the day. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Willard E. Pugh - Ace; Jim Greenleaf - Tom; Mary Beth Evans - Buffy; Tracy Scoggins - Monique; Tim Robbins - Boe; Jay Baker - Jeff; Larry Poindexter - Trevor; Alejandro Arroyo - Rafael; Roger Cudney - Mr. Green; Martin Lasalle - Father Esparza; Ron Ross - Hitman; Abel Woolrich - Pedro; James Andronica - Freddie the Fence; Angélica Aragón - Presidenta Lopez; George Belanger - Ambassador Bartholomew; Pamela Gual - Mrs. Green; Sebastián Ligarde - Lt. Caden
Credit
David Fisher - Director, Geoffrey Rowland - Editor, Leland Bond - Composer (Music Score), Francisco Bojorquez - Cinematographer, Rodolfo De Anda - Producer, E. Darrell Hallenbeck - Producer, David Fisher - Screenwriter, Walter Fox - Screenwriter
Toy Soldiers is a 1984 action film shot in Mexico which stars Jason Miller, Cleavon Little and Terri Garber. It was written and directed by David Andrew Fisher who wrote and directed Liar's Moon (1982) and produced Bat*21 (1988). This is the story of a group of Caltech students yachting off the coast of Central America who are held hostage by terrorists.
Miller plays "The Sarge", USMC RET., who trains the hostages' friends to become an impromptu special ops force - hence the title. The film climaxes in the bloody attempted rescue of the student hostages from the terrorist compound.
