Paratrooper

Shatter (2009)

Actors: Justin Slosky (editor), Amy Reedy (miscellaneous crew), Amy Reedy (writer), Ian Asbjornsen (editor), Ian Asbjornsen (director), Ian Asbjornsen (writer), Adam Ganser (producer), Alexander Aquino (actor), Ericka Clevenger (actress), Ela Brumm (actress), Joseph Caputo (composer), Mickie Okamoto (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Short, War,
Taglines: Live-action Japanese Anime at its best.

Invasion Force (1990)

Actors: David A. Prior (actor), Richard Lynch (actor), David 'Shark' Fralick (actor), David A. Prior (director), David A. Prior (writer), David Winters (producer), Liz Graham (miscellaneous crew), Douglas Harter (actor), Douglas Harter (miscellaneous crew), Ron Frazier (actor), Graham Timbes (actor), Trudy Grant (producer), Tim Card (actor), Sean Holton (actor), Christopher Reynolds (editor),

Plot: A film company crew from AIP (American International Pictures), is filming a low-budget action film in the woods around Mobile, Alabama. The director, Ben Adams, is having problems with the budget dragging out and the hot-tempered producer threatening to shut down the project if the filming is not speed ed up. The lead actress, Jodi Marshall, also deals with her horny co-star and her growing feelings for Ben, both of whom had a romantic fling in the past. But one night, a company of heavily armed soldiers parachute into the area, whom are led by a disgruntled former U.S. Special Forces officer, named Michael Cooper whose mission is to take the city and hold it, and the populace, for ransom. With Ben, Jodi and the rest of the film crew learn of the silent invasion and that the enemy soldiers plan to kill them to prevent them from warning the authorities, the film group decides to take on the invading army all by themselves relying on only their wits, and movie prop guns as their real weapons.

Keywords: die-hard-scenario, epic-battle, explosion, fictional-war, film-within-a-film, gunfight, independent-film, movie-set, murder, paratrooper
Genres: Action,
Taglines: Under the cover of peace, in the darkness of night, a silent terror rains: Invasion U.S.A.!

Baby Blue Marine (1976)

Actors: Leonard Goldberg (producer), Aaron Spelling (producer), Barton Heyman (actor), Jan-Michael Vincent (actor), Keone Young (actor), Katherine Helmond (actress), Kenneth Tobey (actor), Bert Remsen (actor), Marshall Efron (actor), Dana Elcar (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Adam Arkin (actor), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Fred Karlin (composer),

Plot: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

Keywords: 1940s, accidental-shooting, assumed-identity, basic-training, bed-wetting, breaking-a-bottle-over-someone's-head, color-in-title, falling-into-a-river, hitchhiking, impostor
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: In 1943 courage was something you found. Love was something you won.

Divisione Folgore (1955)

Actors: Rosita Pisano (actress), Lea Padovani (actress), Marco Vicario (actor), Fausto Tozzi (actor), Aldo Bufi Landi (actor), José Jaspe (actor), Paolo Panelli (actor), Carlo Tamberlani (actor), Carlo Delle Piane (actor), Ettore Manni (actor), Marco Guglielmi (actor), Terence Hill (actor), Giorgio Capitani (actor), Duilio Coletti (writer), Oreste Biancoli (writer),

Genres: War,

Betrayed (1954)

Actors: Victor Mature (actor), Arthur Mullard (actor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Carl Jaffe (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Anton Diffring (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Clark Gable (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), O.E. Hasse (actor), Theodore Bikel (actor), Glyn Houston (actor), Roland Culver (actor), John Singer (actor),

Plot: Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy for the British intelligence in The Netherlands during WW2, although she is suspected of having cooperated with the Nazis in the past. Colonel Pieter Deventer of Dutch Intelligence agrees that she may train to join a team in the resistance movement, lead by resistance leader The Scarf. The team starts to suffer heavy losses after she has joined them. Is she a traitor?

Keywords: arnhem-holland, betrayal, canal, checkpoint, collaborator, covert-operative, death-of-husband, delft-holland, double-agent, drawbridge
Genres: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War,
Taglines: Great story of love and war! The Secret Three meet...one is the betrayer and two the betrayed! M-G-M filmed the mystery of the year in Holland!

Quotes:

Col. Helmuth Dietrich: [to Deventer] You've got a brilliant mind, Colonel, but the best of minds will disintegrate without exercise.

Col. Pieter Deventer: So much for character, isn't it?::Col. Helmuth Dietrich: A spy has no character; he merely assumes one.

'The Scarf': [to Carla as they arrive on the farm and get out of the truck] Home at last! Beautiful isn't it? And this is my charming brother Chris. [to Chris] Hey, Chris, put the bucket down and say hello to something you've never seen in your entire stupid life - a lady! Well, say something, Chris! [to Carla] Great talker, this brother of mine - he always was!::Chris: [Dryly] I thought maybe you'd come back to do a job of work for a change.::'The Scarf': [Sarcastically] Work, Chris? What is that?

Carla Van Oven: [to Deventer] You gave me a reason for living. Don't take it away now like a toy from a child!

Col. Helmuth Dietrich: It is fascinating. You really trust me, don't you?::Col. Pieter Deventer: I rely on the word of an officer and a gentleman.::Col. Helmuth Dietrich: That's a weakness, Colonel. It gives me the upper hand.::Col. Pieter Deventer: Mine has a gun in it.

Gen. Ten Eyck: To us, Colonel. Twin souls in a darkening world.

Objective, Burma! (1945)

Actors: Richard Erdman (actor), Shep Houghton (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), John James (actor), John Alvin (actor), Errol Flynn (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Truman Bradley (actor), James Brown (actor), William Hudson (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), William Prince (actor), Lester Matthews (actor),

Plot: In 1944, Capt. Charlie Nelson leads a platoon of paratroopers into Burma to blow up a Japanese radar station in advance of the allied invasion. They're accompanied on the mission by Mark William, an American journalist who is there to write about their exploits. The mission goes off without a hitch and without the loss of any men. The plan was for them to be picked up by two transport airplanes at an old landing strip but a Japanese patrol prevents them from doing so. The men are now forced to march towards the front lines, however the closer they get, the greater the number of Japanese troops they will face. With the Air Corps dropping them supplies at agreed locations, the men move on but few of them remain after encounters with the enemy. Eventually, they are all presumed lost just as the invasion is launched.

Keywords: 1940s, aerial-reconnaissance, ambush, american-soldier, architect, bamboo, based-on-true-story, battle, battlefield, bayonet
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War,

Quotes:

Mark Williams: What if my parachute doesn't open?::Capt. Nelson: Then you'll be the first one on the ground.

Paratrooper: [upon following the dead body of young paratrooper Hollis] So much for Mrs. Hollis' nine months of pain and twenty years of hope.

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: It's sure peaceful so far.::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: That's the way I like it... peaceful. I already said when I starved to death, I want it to be peaceful.

Capt. Nelson: [to Williams' dead body] Oh, we won't forget you, Pop. From now on, if I ever get to buy another newspaper, I'll remember what a few cents can buy. So long.

Mark Williams: Your folks are gonna get quite a kick out of reading about you.::Lt. Sid Jacobs: [Taken aback] You mean all that stuff will be in the Schenectady paper?::Mark Williams: Sure. You don't mind, do you?::Lt. Sid Jacobs: Well, heck, no! What do you know, it's a small world, isn't it?::Mark Williams: Yeah, and it's getting smaller. If only more folks back home would realize that Crane Street, Schenectady runs all the way to Burma, this would be the last war.::Lt. Sid Jacobs: Amen.

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: What are you thinkin' about, Gabby?::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [Chuckling] I wonder what happened to those two Zulus I had a date with last week.

Capt. Nelson: [Seeing Gabby putting stagnant water in his canteen and getting ready to drink it] Hey, do you want to get sick? Where's your purifying tablets?::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: I lost them when we made that last river crossing. [Nelson gives him some of his] They'll remember me in history. Gabby Gordon: the guy who purified all the stinkin' rivers in Burma!

Mark Williams: [Aghast and outraged at the atrocities] Hey, I've been a newspaperman for thirty years. I thought I'd seen or read about everything that one man can do to another from the torture chambers of the Middle Ages to the gang wars and lynchings of the day. But this... this is different! This was done in cold blood... by people who... who claim to be civilized. Civilzed? They're degenerate immoral idiots! Stinkin' little savages! Wipe 'em out, I say! Wipe 'em out! Wipe 'em off the face of the Earth! Wipe 'em off the face of the earth! [Walking offscreen] The bastards! God!

Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [about Nelson to the other men] C'm'on! I'll follow him down the barrel of a cannon!

Col. J. Carter: [Pessimistically looking at aerial reconnaisance photos] Supply bundles lying where they were dropped. Three dead men to play host to every fly in Burma.

Counter-Attack (1945)

Actors: Arno Frey (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), John Bagni (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), David Bond (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Richard Bartell (actor), John L. Cason (actor), William Challee (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Objective, Burma! (1945)

Actors: Richard Erdman (actor), Shep Houghton (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), John James (actor), John Alvin (actor), Errol Flynn (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Truman Bradley (actor), James Brown (actor), William Hudson (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), William Prince (actor), Lester Matthews (actor),

Plot: In 1944, Capt. Charlie Nelson leads a platoon of paratroopers into Burma to blow up a Japanese radar station in advance of the allied invasion. They're accompanied on the mission by Mark William, an American journalist who is there to write about their exploits. The mission goes off without a hitch and without the loss of any men. The plan was for them to be picked up by two transport airplanes at an old landing strip but a Japanese patrol prevents them from doing so. The men are now forced to march towards the front lines, however the closer they get, the greater the number of Japanese troops they will face. With the Air Corps dropping them supplies at agreed locations, the men move on but few of them remain after encounters with the enemy. Eventually, they are all presumed lost just as the invasion is launched.

Keywords: 1940s, aerial-reconnaissance, ambush, american-soldier, architect, bamboo, based-on-true-story, battle, battlefield, bayonet
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War,

Quotes:

Mark Williams: What if my parachute doesn't open?::Capt. Nelson: Then you'll be the first one on the ground.

Paratrooper: [upon following the dead body of young paratrooper Hollis] So much for Mrs. Hollis' nine months of pain and twenty years of hope.

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: It's sure peaceful so far.::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: That's the way I like it... peaceful. I already said when I starved to death, I want it to be peaceful.

Capt. Nelson: [to Williams' dead body] Oh, we won't forget you, Pop. From now on, if I ever get to buy another newspaper, I'll remember what a few cents can buy. So long.

Mark Williams: Your folks are gonna get quite a kick out of reading about you.::Lt. Sid Jacobs: [Taken aback] You mean all that stuff will be in the Schenectady paper?::Mark Williams: Sure. You don't mind, do you?::Lt. Sid Jacobs: Well, heck, no! What do you know, it's a small world, isn't it?::Mark Williams: Yeah, and it's getting smaller. If only more folks back home would realize that Crane Street, Schenectady runs all the way to Burma, this would be the last war.::Lt. Sid Jacobs: Amen.

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: What are you thinkin' about, Gabby?::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [Chuckling] I wonder what happened to those two Zulus I had a date with last week.

Capt. Nelson: [Seeing Gabby putting stagnant water in his canteen and getting ready to drink it] Hey, do you want to get sick? Where's your purifying tablets?::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: I lost them when we made that last river crossing. [Nelson gives him some of his] They'll remember me in history. Gabby Gordon: the guy who purified all the stinkin' rivers in Burma!

Mark Williams: [Aghast and outraged at the atrocities] Hey, I've been a newspaperman for thirty years. I thought I'd seen or read about everything that one man can do to another from the torture chambers of the Middle Ages to the gang wars and lynchings of the day. But this... this is different! This was done in cold blood... by people who... who claim to be civilized. Civilzed? They're degenerate immoral idiots! Stinkin' little savages! Wipe 'em out, I say! Wipe 'em out! Wipe 'em off the face of the Earth! Wipe 'em off the face of the earth! [Walking offscreen] The bastards! God!

Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [about Nelson to the other men] C'm'on! I'll follow him down the barrel of a cannon!

Col. J. Carter: [Pessimistically looking at aerial reconnaisance photos] Supply bundles lying where they were dropped. Three dead men to play host to every fly in Burma.

Counter-Attack (1945)

Actors: Arno Frey (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), John Bagni (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), David Bond (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Richard Bartell (actor), John L. Cason (actor), William Challee (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Objective, Burma! (1945)

Actors: Richard Erdman (actor), Shep Houghton (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), John James (actor), John Alvin (actor), Errol Flynn (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Truman Bradley (actor), James Brown (actor), William Hudson (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), William Prince (actor), Lester Matthews (actor),

Plot: In 1944, Capt. Charlie Nelson leads a platoon of paratroopers into Burma to blow up a Japanese radar station in advance of the allied invasion. They're accompanied on the mission by Mark William, an American journalist who is there to write about their exploits. The mission goes off without a hitch and without the loss of any men. The plan was for them to be picked up by two transport airplanes at an old landing strip but a Japanese patrol prevents them from doing so. The men are now forced to march towards the front lines, however the closer they get, the greater the number of Japanese troops they will face. With the Air Corps dropping them supplies at agreed locations, the men move on but few of them remain after encounters with the enemy. Eventually, they are all presumed lost just as the invasion is launched.

Keywords: 1940s, aerial-reconnaissance, ambush, american-soldier, architect, bamboo, based-on-true-story, battle, battlefield, bayonet
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War,

Quotes:

Mark Williams: What if my parachute doesn't open?::Capt. Nelson: Then you'll be the first one on the ground.

Paratrooper: [upon following the dead body of young paratrooper Hollis] So much for Mrs. Hollis' nine months of pain and twenty years of hope.

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: It's sure peaceful so far.::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: That's the way I like it... peaceful. I already said when I starved to death, I want it to be peaceful.

Capt. Nelson: [to Williams' dead body] Oh, we won't forget you, Pop. From now on, if I ever get to buy another newspaper, I'll remember what a few cents can buy. So long.

Mark Williams: Your folks are gonna get quite a kick out of reading about you.::Lt. Sid Jacobs: [Taken aback] You mean all that stuff will be in the Schenectady paper?::Mark Williams: Sure. You don't mind, do you?::Lt. Sid Jacobs: Well, heck, no! What do you know, it's a small world, isn't it?::Mark Williams: Yeah, and it's getting smaller. If only more folks back home would realize that Crane Street, Schenectady runs all the way to Burma, this would be the last war.::Lt. Sid Jacobs: Amen.

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: What are you thinkin' about, Gabby?::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [Chuckling] I wonder what happened to those two Zulus I had a date with last week.

Capt. Nelson: [Seeing Gabby putting stagnant water in his canteen and getting ready to drink it] Hey, do you want to get sick? Where's your purifying tablets?::Cpl. Gabby Gordon: I lost them when we made that last river crossing. [Nelson gives him some of his] They'll remember me in history. Gabby Gordon: the guy who purified all the stinkin' rivers in Burma!

Mark Williams: [Aghast and outraged at the atrocities] Hey, I've been a newspaperman for thirty years. I thought I'd seen or read about everything that one man can do to another from the torture chambers of the Middle Ages to the gang wars and lynchings of the day. But this... this is different! This was done in cold blood... by people who... who claim to be civilized. Civilzed? They're degenerate immoral idiots! Stinkin' little savages! Wipe 'em out, I say! Wipe 'em out! Wipe 'em off the face of the Earth! Wipe 'em off the face of the earth! [Walking offscreen] The bastards! God!

Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [about Nelson to the other men] C'm'on! I'll follow him down the barrel of a cannon!

Col. J. Carter: [Pessimistically looking at aerial reconnaisance photos] Supply bundles lying where they were dropped. Three dead men to play host to every fly in Burma.