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forces will be transferred to other bases, and that his command will be terminated and he desires to use his cut on a lavish retirement. As the cartel begins to smuggle their contraband in barrels disguised as U.S. Air Force property, Anna breaks free from her prison and sneaks into the cartel's cargo plane, telling her father she will return with help. After the plane lands in
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is sabotaged with some live ammunition mixed with the paint rounds, nearly killing Chappy if not for his well-executed emergency landing. Seeing that someone in the Air Force wants him out of the equation, he and his flight team rush to Anna's apartment, where she gives him the location of Kleiss'
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is shot down during a dogfight, but Chappy manages to destroy the cocaine factory. As Simms takes off with a shipment in his cargo aircraft, DEA helicopters led by Warren arrive to assist the aces. Meanwhile, Anna has the villagers safe in the church, only to find out that it has been rigged with
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captain Gustav Kleiss runs a drug cartel while holding Anna, the mayor's daughter, hostage. He is also being aided by USAF General Simms in delivering the drugs overseas. Simms has secretly sided with Kleiss after being informed that his airbase is to be closed down in a matter of months and his
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exhibition at an air show, where they stage dogfights by shooting each other with paint pellets and are "shot down" by landing with smoke emissions. Upon hearing that an old friend named Ramon
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to replace the destroyed aircraft, and for him to shut up about the cartel incident. Chappy is also told that the P-38 Lightning is now his; he decides to name it "Shadow
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even comes off as competent It’s like a haywire high school student production that Lou
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363:, released
332:Sonny Chiba
302:Ron Samuels
294:action film
121:Sonny Chiba
83:Ron Samuels
79:Produced by
46:Directed by
1296:1992 films
1290:Categories
1111:soundtrack
1105:Iron Eagle
1089:Iron Eagle
773:2019-10-30
709:References
667:Iron Eagle
580:Production
556:as Escovez
311:Iron Eagle
278:Box office
249:98 minutes
232:1992-06-12
221:1992-01-09
161:Production
134:Alec Mills
69:Characters
56:Written by
1217:Octopussy
1197:John Glen
919:ReelViews
734:Citations
644:Reception
568:as Bigman
566:Bob Minor
542:Tom Bower
530:Rob Estes
508:as Palmer
418:, former
298:John Glen
163:companies
140:Edited by
50:John Glen
1153:Category
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562:as Chico
532:as Doyle
453:kamikaze
441:Spitfire
405:Peruvian
373:New Line
262:Language
150:Music by
89:Starring
66:Based on
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451:does a
369:Carolco
265:English
254:Country
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1252:(1990)
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463:trap.
432:Bf 109
346:, and
270:Budget
1097:Films
714:Notes
1041:IMDb
1017:ISBN
1002:ISBN
987:ISBN
475:Cast
420:Nazi
416:Peru
401:UCLA
379:Plot
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880:at
864:TCM
808:at
409:DEA
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