Operation Dumbo Drop Page #3

Synopsis: During the Vietnam War, a village that American 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. Captain Sam Cahill, an easygoing man who is heading home, and his hotheaded replacement Captain TC Doyle scrounge up another elephant with the help of sneaky supply chief warrant officer David Poole, luckless farmboy Lawrence Farley, and short-timer Harvey Ashford, and transport it across South Vietnam to get it to the village on time, running into all sorts of transport problems, personality conflicts, and an NVA squad that wants the Americans out of the village.
Director(s): Simon Wincer
Production: Buena Vista
 
IMDB:
5.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
PG
Year:
1995
107 min
390 Views


I wanted to go to the beach, and not

worry about snakes.

Snakes?

- It does not belong here.

I call General Richardson.

He gives you probably got a new mission.

Get your ration,

This is our home.

Did you now but you geluksdop

had, huh, smart guy?

What are you doing?

He goes home. He is lucky

need to arrive safely.

You want happiness?

You must have "an old Vietnamese

flessedop sale.

Linh has nothing for sale.

Elephant brings happiness.

If you want happiness,

Bo Tat on tap.

Sure.

What bad luck?

Not whistling in the dark.

Then snake bite you.

Even worse:
When the night

an owl will die's family.

Is that the worst?

Owl's nothing compared to crow.

If you see crow...

...is that many accident.

- What happens?

If you have a large black bird

see you run.

You know, this is a beautiful country.

I am really impressed.

Yes, very nice. I am

thinking of home.

You got a lot of rice fields?

That you have in Arkansas.

Tell me what you here

home-like.

The crushing humidity?

The nasty bugs?

Or fine feeling that any moment

A bullet in your forehead can land?

I'm talking crazy feeling

you 're not like.

I think it's crazy, like everyone else.

But you are the only American

who prefer elsewhere.

Come on, give me...

Hurry up.

Where you going?

- They will help.

Golly. Cahill,

understand me well.

I would like good deeds,

but we must arrange a truck.

It does not take long.

Later delivers it somewhat.

Maybe you get the stump.

Go hang, but the benefactor, I

Go to the road to do a job.

Go and have fun.

They go with the elephant to the roof NHE

to replace the dead elephant?

That you had slain.

We make sure that the Americans

fulfill their promise.

Therefore, they Roof nhe

absolutely not make.

Where is everybody?

- They come back.

What a blunt.

- America won today.

Without shooting.

We lost two hours

and we have no truck.

How about an old diesel

with a large bucket? Is that good?

That is development aid.

They can not buy fuel.

We got him from got them.

How long have you Bo Tat?

- Forever. She was my father.

What happened to your father?

- He died.

How did that happen?

Was it us?

No idea.

I hope it does not.

Colonel, I have the Americans

and found the elephant.

They will not leave here.

The radiator is leaking, I make him shut.

What do you need?

I need to Saigon. These men

have captured me.

Poole, I speak the language well.

- I was "kidding.

I call again and you know who.

We need food for

have the elephant.

Bo Tat must move.

Feed, water. She is hungry.

They are thirsty.

Now.

- Good, good.

Farley, bring her to the fountain

to drink. We introduce her later.

Bo Tat, what you eat, honey?

One minute.

Hurry up, will soon be

we chased away.

Moment.

Surround them and attack

If I give the word.

Farley, where does she go?

Captain Doyle,

Captain Cahill, help.

Linh, who love elephants.

- Come back.

Beware the elephant.

Sorry about your chicken.

- Turn now to the elephant.

We must end

with the elephant.

Turn it around.

This way.

Forward.

We have...

Forward.

Give your hand.

Wait for me.

- Captain, slowly.

Run, Farley.

Sounds bad.

- We can not stop.

They are behind us.

There were North Vietnamese.

They do not stand out,

but they have the same haircut.

Where will he go? Where you going?

- To Saigon.

Come back.

- I call General Richardson.

Yes, Cahill, but the general call.

I will be here before you run.

I'm really sick of me...

Well it is enough.

I almost crashed

I'm almost lynched...

...my suit is covered with sh*t.

For my part tell Richardson

I've slept with his wife.

Wait a minute.

The wife of

Richardson war horse?

I thought it was his daughter.

- Yes, he had pretty well found.

Poole, Saigon is the other way.

The nearest village is Hau

Bon, 45 km upstream.

You will only alive,

if you stay with us.

He is overheated.

What do we do now?

Waiting. There will be

a resolution passed.

My motto is:
Have faith.

- And mine Explosives, and a lot.

Loading mines and grenades in the truck.

Mine at the door. If the

North Vietnamese coming, boom.

With some luck, the road bridge.

- Happiness? For whom?

People use the bridge.

- It's a war on.

The NVA is behind us,

and that but with a purpose.

Kill us. Their lives

my responsibility.

I'm not into that as farmers

can not cross the bridge.

However, the NVA as a first here?

If the school be?

Have you thought of? And why

not? Guys if you think not.

I do not? What about you?

We are risking all our lives

so you have a clean conscience does.

You're afraid that if you are on the roof

sitting and looking back on your career...

...that's not like what you see.

That erases everything Vietnam.

You want a good deed

do before you leave.

That is:
a child from a

burning building pulling, but this.

And we are involved.

There's no thought, huh?

Why not? Because boys

if you do not think.

Come, SIRS. Apart, SIRS.

Pull me up.

- Give me your hand.

Everything good?

Glad I stayed.

At the risk of the enemy-I

Reopen ties, what do we do?

I said:
Have faith.

Are my ears

whether you sing so bad now?

Your ears. I always sang so bad.

Have faith, mumbo jumbo.

You knew he was coming.

I was first in Hau Bon.

Every Wednesday were Mr. Goddard

and Marie Antoinette along.

He gave us good information

the Vietcong.

I just love America.

You also gave the Vietcong

good information about us.

I can not help. I love

everyone. Wine anyone?

Wine? We are sometimes in a gallery?

We liberate the oppressed.

Not drinking and partying.

Now.

What have I done?

I need top-commands

on path...

...not Dumbo, Mr. French

and the Three Stooges.

D'ng lai, which means 'stop'.

Dee, that means 'go'.

Try it.

Well done. You know two

key words al

And what is the third?

It means "get off me".

Do you remember that sleep on?

- That was you really like, huh?

Linh was right, you're weird.

I can get as much as you want.

- Tonight we passed Pon Hau.

We'll show a path that does not

hands of the enemy.

And so to Pleiku.

Friday, we fly to Bo Tat

Roof NHE. In the afternoon she is there.

Easy.

Decks.

Cover all costs.

Do not shoot

they are out of reach.

They hit us so. I know,

I'm in the artillery.

You have to zigzag.

Keep moving.

What did Bo Tat?

- She's hurt here.

She was seasick.

She will puke.

My child asks later, "What was it

worst? I know it well.

Can you faster?

Soon my boat goes to the basement.

- Maybe not.

Gilman, who had me head you can

deliver? That was just "kidding.

I love you as a brother.

Are you crazy? Where can I find

a Triumph Spitfire? Dirty rat.

Sorry, my apologies.

Well, agreed.

Put him with artillery.

A direct line.

Go ahead. Dirty...

Here. Stay tuned.

We are on the Song Ba, the NVA is

with a boat behind us.

Yes, Hotel Alpha. Who is

I? Barney? Hey, how are you?

We need your help, pronto.

We need artillery.

Bravo fire in ordinates Romeo

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