Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)

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Danny Glover

Capt. Sam Cahill

Ray Liotta

Capt. T.C. Doyle

Denis Leary

Lt. David Poole

Doug E. Doug

SP4 Harvey (H.A.) Ashford

Corin Nemec

Sp5 Lawrence Farley

Dinh Thien Le

Linh

Tchéky Karyo

Goddard
(as Tcheky Karyo)

Hoang Ly

Col. Nguyen

Vo Trung Anh

Lt. Quang, NVA

Marshall Bell

Col. Pederson

James Hong

Y B'ham

Long Nguyen

Jhon

Tim Kelleher

C-123 Pilot

Scott N. Stevens

C-123 Co-Pilot

Kevin LaRosa

Irish - Huey Pilot #1
(as Kevin Larosa)

Christopher Ward

Cowboy - Huey Co-Pilot

Robert Kevin Miller

Huey Gunner #1

Michael Ming-Yang Lee

Village Elder
(as Ming-Yang Li)

Director
- Simon Wincer
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Trivia
Denis Leary has said that he, Danny Glover, and Ray Liotta only did the picture because they each wanted to buy property. Filming took so long, and got so bad, they all started carrying around pictures of the property and looking at them to get them through the shooting.

Goofs
In the cast listing David Poole(Dennis Leary) is listed as Lt. Poole. In the movie he is actually a US Army Chief Warrant Officer Three. This can be seen by the right collar bar on his uniform that has a bar with three black boxes and by the Warrant officer insignia on the left collar.

Quotes
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Does anybody else here know how to work an elephant?
Harvey (H.A.) Ashford: I was in love with a fat woman once, but she never listened to me.

Crazy credits
Before the end credits, there is a statement that says, "This movie was inspired by a true story."

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Waterworld/Operation Dumbo Drop/The Net/Babe/Country Life (1995)

Soundtracks
Boom Boom
Written by John Lee Hooker
Performed by David Clayton-Thomas
Courtesy of MCA Records

The Good & Bad Of 'Operation Dumbo Drop'

This movie had some typically-good Disney aspects to it but also some typically- bad Disney agendas in here that just about made me puke.

With modern-day Disney films - or at least the ones in the 1980s and 1990s - you can expect the following "good" and "bad:" This movie proves to be no exception.

GOOD - Slick-looking photography with beautiful Vitenamese scenery; low profanity; an interesting story that moves well.

BAD - Political-correctness run amok......an annoying kid who knows more than the adults; an ending that's always drawn out too long; a reverence for Eastern religions or anything that is not Christianity; a black and a white lead character in which the black is always the better of the two, etc. etc.

A SURPRISE - Danny Glover and Ray Liotta losing their tempers but not swearing a blue streak. Wow, now that's different!