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The Delta Force
| Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Release Date: | February 14, 1986 |
| Running time: | 125 minutes |
| Cast: | Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster |
| Director: | Menahem Golan |
| Writer: | James Bruner, Menahem Golan |
Description: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the crisis -- an American serviceman is beaten to death, a terrorist holds a gun to the pilot's head as the pilot is being questioned by reporters -- while depicting the tension aboard the plane and the agony of the passengers, held under the threat of death by the terrorists. The Delta Force, a crack anti-terrorist commando group, is preparing to rescue the passengers. Colonel Nick Alexander (Lee Marvin) is the grizzled commander of the task force; his best soldier is Major Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris), who was planning to retire but is called back into action for one last heroic stand against terrorism.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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