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Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
Joaquim de Almeida
- The Soldier's Force
- (as Joaquim DeAlmeida)
Bill Anagnos
- Truck Driver
- (as William Anagos)
- …
Gerald Aleck Cantor
- Customs Officer
- (as Gerald Cantor)
Anthony Cecere
- Nuclear Guard
- (as Tony Cecere)
Al Cerullo
- Dauphin Pilot
- (as Al Cerullo Jr.)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaDirector James Glickenhaus' later 1988 movie Shakedown (1988) has The Soldier (1982) being played at the 42nd Street grind-house theater where Sam Elliot visits.
- GoofsDuring the KGB Training Camp scenes in Minsk there is an AM General M715 and a late 1970s GM station wagon seen in the camp.
- Quotes
The Soldier's Force: You've Got Two Choices... Duck Or Bleed
- Alternate versionsThe UK cinema version was cut by 4 secs to remove blood spurts from stomach and head shootings though video releases lost a further minute from a scene where a light bulb is fitted with a booby trapped bomb which explodes later. The 2004 Cinema Club DVD restored the cinema cuts but retained 1 min 17 secs of edits to the bomb-making scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shakedown (1988)
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Badly made movie with a few good scenes.
Not a great movie, but better than other films. The Soldier is about the cold war between the Soviets and Ameriacans. This movie is similar to James Bond but is more violent than the Bond films. Ken Wahl is the C I A's version of James Bond. However, I find the movie is inferiorly made compared to the Bond series. I hate seeing a few good scenes wasted in a film which has choppy directing, an unbelievable script, and bad acting. I like these kind of films but this movie is like a HBO style, low budget film. I wish the makers had more time and money to make this movie the way it should have been made. The Soldier is an 3 or 5 out of 10. Watch it on late night TV.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Codename: The Soldier
- Filming locations
- Buffalo, New York, USA(three weeks, missile base: Smith Center, Russian training camp: KGB, explosion: tractor-trailer)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,328,816
- Gross worldwide
- $6,328,816
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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