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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinating Airborne Advs w/ Real War Footage (WW2, Korea), August 3, 2004
This review is from: Jet Attack/Paratroop Command [VHS] (VHS Tape)
PARATROOP COMMAND and JET ATTACK are both on this video. They are both very interesting airborne adventures that use actual war footage. Both films were made in the 1950s, and are interesting both as war films, and from the historical perspective on how combat was portrayed on film in the 1950s. Here is the basic plots of these films:
PARATROOP COMMAND is set in North Africa, 1942, where Charlie (the lead character) is out to prove himself in a mission loaded chute and boot classic. Charlie's fatal mistake is to fall behind. His unit reconnoiters in range of an Axis radio bunker, and the heroic cowboy volunteers to play scarecrow. Disguised as a German, Cowboy helps his unit take the hill, but the late arriving Charlie doens't recognize him. He just sees his trench-maktes surrendering to a German, and guns Cowboy down. From Sicily to Salermo, Charlie dodgers bullets in the air and on the ground. Caught in the cross-fire of his own self double, and the vengeance of Cowboy's hometown buddy, Ace. But before the firing stops, heroism emerges in PARATROOP COMMAND, the story of one man's private war for redemption.
JET ATTACK is set in the skies of KOREA. It is a firery story of heroism and intrigue. When an American electronics expert strays into a dogfight and gets shot down behind enemy lines, he takes the secret to his new radio targeting device down with him. A bloot chit from the friendly resistance says that he is alive, and Captain Arnett may be the only mane in the US Air Force who can find him. The the North Koreans scramble under heavy air attack, Arnett leads a risky covert mission into the heart of enemy territory. A friendly guerrilla camp provides support. The beautiful but mysterious Tanya, a Soviet medical officer, provides intelligence. But, Arnett provides the grit.
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