Top cast:Tom Cruise,Nicole Kidman,Todd Field
Director:James Bamford
Genre:History
Region:Norway
Year:2018
Storyline:The film begins in China: "At the turn-stiles of the East - The bund of a great Chinese treaty port." In the busy Chinese shopping district are young girls, a family, and "sky-larking American sailors.One of their colleagues warns: "Don""t get your ass shot off." The three close, hometown, "macho," working-class, male-bonded Russian-American buddies will be testing heir masculinity in war in the airborne division:Michael "Mike" Vronsky (Robert De Niro), the eldest, strongest, and acknowledged leader of the group, serious sportsman and believer in the "one-shot" philosophy; called a "control freak"Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich (Christopher Walken), possessed of a gambling nature, caring, group-oriented, a risk-takerSteven Pushkov (John Savage), low-key, soft-spoken, vulnerable and sensitive, weak, a followerThey join up with two other workers:Stan (John Cazale, ill with cancer during filming), a low-life, weasly, insecure and nervous, would-be womanizerAxel (Chuck Aspegren), a massive, heavy-set, brutish, and grunting manIn the parking lot, Michael looks up at a halo around he sun and reverentially explains its auspicious significance as a good omen for the day - and for a hunting trip:Those are sun dogs.It was a classic, high-energy, mad-cap musical spoof of the dashing adventure films in Hollywood""s Golden Age of Swashbucklers (many of which starred Errol Flynn) - with a masked Robin Hood or Zorro character in the forest, the romancing of a Princess-damsel in a tower, wenches, hypnotic spells, dueling, jousting with a knight""s suit of body armor, and much more." After a second missile missed, McClane taunted: "Is that your best shot?!" Falling debris from the overhead collapsing highway crippled the jet""s engine, and caused the pilot to eject, as McClane fell onto the wing of the spinning aircraft from a destroyed ramp on an incline - he miraculously survived when he jumped to safety as it exploded upon impact.2 million (domestic) - and became the 14th highest-grossing film of its year.The film nostalgically reflected its 1950s roots with the use of slang words such as: "Daddy-O," "Gonesville," and "Flippy.