Operation Dumbo Drop Page #4

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


That was perfect, Barney.

- No, he almost hit us.

We move, the coordinates are

perfect as she... Fire directed.

Now.

The boat off.

You now called the Brown BOMBERS.

You want him to try?

I have a place to sleep.

What is this place?

- An ancient temple.

'S Buddhist Temple?

- A Tam Giao Temple.

What Buddhism, which

Confucianism and what Tao.

And those elephants?

The elephant god Tam Giao.

No god, father god.

In the beginning were white elephants.

They flew into the air with the clouds.

It went 'n elephant down

and crept into Queen Maya...

...while they slept.

She had a baby, Prince Siddhartha,

Gautama the Buddha.

Elephant god father.

Linh, that was a great story.

Flying elephants, which was very good.

But you might as well start with:

"In the beginning, black elephant. "

The only possibility is this path

after the Pleiku.

Is that only safe?

- I do not know.

We can ask, or create

Americans-with-elephant suspicion?

We can send Linh.

Nobody suspects him.

You can not. You know why.

We can not take that risk.

I will go.

I do not care who your family

murdered. You probably also not.

Vietcong killed the mother and sister.

Linh know who killed father.

Linh and father went home.

There was a big light.

Everything happened quickly, people call.

Shooting. Father loves Linh down.

Bo Tat runs. They shoot

Bo Tat down.

Father Linh and countries apart.

Father runs to Linh, falls down.

He shot.

Linh moving.

Bo Linh Tat rescues.

Men shoot at Bo Tat many times.

Bo Tat goes very far.

Bo Tat save me.

Were you injured?

You said you could not move.

- That was because I was too scared.

Therefore father died, I too scared.

- Why is he not died.

Of course you were scared.

I would have. Everyone.

Linh, it was not your fault.

- From whom?

People.

People far away.

People who never have been.

- Linh does not understand.

How did you get in Ban Don?

- With American note.

He said he take me to the mountains

brings back. He lied.

I'll take you back to the hills.

I promise.

Linh father was a good father,

a prime best father.

I like to think that.

I like to think that.

Is it safe path to Pleiku?

Yes, the path is safe.

There is no Vietcong.

I had to pee.

I wanted to desecrate the temple.

- Never mind.

He sat down to eat out.

They learn quickly that we are here.

I will visit him out.

- The elephant needs to Pleiku.

How do we walk Bo?

- Linh Farley has learned.

Of course not.

Well, he has it taught me.

Take someone with you.

- I've messed up, I go.

That's crazy.

My legs do not want anymore.

Then I'll go.

He has my watch.

Where are your American friends?

- I have not.

Leave her a leg

drop. We go.

I do not know that command. Help me.

- Grab the gun here.

Your foot on my leg. Help your mind?

In three. One, two, three.

Push.

I sit on it.

- Well done.

I do not know.

She says she's ready.

- No, angry.

This way. We go around.

This side.

- I can not run.

Stop her.

- Good, good. Dee.

I mean dee d'ng.

Tell my ma I love her.

Stop, you idiot beast.

Farley, good mahout.

Everything good?

They got him pretty good had.

- He has beaten me so often.

When I told you in

Hau Bon were, he believed.

That we were Hau Bon?

Why are you here go?

- You wanted to know if path was safe.

Linh can only ask. For Linh

arrested, he told safe path.

Linh Do you trust now?

I trust Linh.

Hug a lot.

Deleted?

How can the mission be deleted?

- We have the village do not need.

When you were on safari,

the Ho Chi Minh trail moved.

The village has no strategic importance.

- No strategic interest?

Major Pederson, sir.

We're almost there.

Please let us finish.

We fly the elephant...

- Where?

The runway in the village?

Recently destroyed by NVA.

You can no countries

the elephant. End of mission.

Bo Linh Tat, and And then?

The boy and the elephant, sir.

- Bring them back.

Where you going?

- I Can not say.

Then you will like me. Do you love me

in return, be it war.

The mission has been deleted.

This is the captain ignored.

Will you steal a truck?

- If necessary.

Why not steal

once an airplane?

Do you worry about the land?

We do not have to land.

Remember when I said:

Give them show a tractor.

How did we

'S tractor yet?

Tractors do not have to land.

Well, we need parachutes...

- We?

Yes, Captain.

We.

HA, Farley, do you take?

If you're the elephant to NHE Roof

, it is your career be over.

Maybe we all have a

good thing for us to leave.

Which way did they go?

- Over the mountains to Pleiku.

Insane. Bo Tat is not a tractor.

Now we hear't really feel

by talking?

I feel sorry for her.

Tell anyone I said that.

Secret, even without

permission from the tower.

No radio, no one knows what.

This was not done.

They've stolen 123.

Five minutes ago.

Damn, tell them to return.

It sits there full of NVA artillery.

An enemy unit comes

Pleiku. Immediate destruction.

Do not worry.

- I've never jumped.

They do not. Does she push?

The parachutes and Bo Tat

the crate open automatically.

This line immediately gets

the parachutes open.

Three of you jumping for Bo Tat.

Ten and counting freefall

then withdraw. Understood?

If you get confused in Bo Tat's

wires. And go to their lands.

Cahill and I remain on board until

Bo Tat away. Then we go.

Any Questions?

- Will also Linh?

No, you stay on board.

Linh can take mine

and I remain on board.

Lin Bo Tat goes with it.

- That's too dangerous.

Linh you promise and

Bo Tat home.

Yes, you see Bo Tat

about a couple of days.

But you must first back.

- You lie, you lie.

You're right.

I said I would bring you home

and I do. I keep on board.

I'll take you back to

the mountains and Bo Tat.

You can now not just with her.

One more.

Go under the radar.

- This is not a fighter.

You can not jump at this height.

- Near the village, we fly higher.

No, now go fly higher.

We all leap.

- But just above the village.

We go now.

- Get ready.

Change of plan.

- We are approaching the village.

Staandebij.

Ready?

Forward.

I can not, I forgot something.

I'm an office clerk,

I work in my office.

Great, huh?

Here goes.

Is this fun, Poole?

Hold on.

Hold on.

Pak'm.

Hang, Bo Tat.

I suppose the goal in sight.

Target in sight.

I await your command.

Quang Comrade?

Let him go.

I do not want to shoot elephants,

certainly not flying elephants.

God, save me and I will

never lie.

Farley, you're dead. I swear,

I'll murder you.

Linh loves embrace.

Careful.

Everybody back.

Is she okay?

- All best prime order.

Where is HA?

- Give me a ladder.

Backwards, Linh.

- Get ready for the ceremony.

Drop your weapons.

You spend far elephant.

Admirable, congratulations.

Pity you the trouble

to have done nothing.

Vogel, thunder momentarily.

Elephant will die.

Drop your weapons.

Understood, Whiskey Tango. About.

Crossbow 6 close.

What did he say?

The good news is that you are a hero

because you've caught Nguyen.

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