Strategic Command (film)

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Strategic Command
Strategic Command film poster.jpg
Directed by Rick Jacobson
Starring Michael Dudikoff
Amanda Wyss
Richard Norton
Paul Winfield
Bryan Cranston
Stephen Quadros
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Strategic Command is a 1997 air hijack direct-to-video film directed by Rick Jacobson, starring Michael Dudikoff, and co-starring Richard Norton, Paul Winfield, Bryan Cranston, and Stephen Quadros. [1] The film was written by Sean McGinly and Tripp Reed. [2]

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Plot

Rick Harding (Michael Dudikoff) is a former US Marine officer, now working as biological weapons scientist for the FBI. [3] Harding's lab is infiltrated, which results in terrorists getting their hands on a deadly nerve agent, Bromax 365. Led by Carlos Gruber (Richard Norton), the terrorists hijack Air Force Two, the aircraft of the vice president), a Boeing VC-25 en route from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Harding must participate in a midair effort to retake the plane and save his wife and the vice President. [4]

Cast

Production and reception

The aircraft pictured in this film features the prototype Boeing 747 (in its red and black livery) and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, changes from the original 1996 source film Executive Decision , which shows an Oceanic Airlines 747 and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, respectively.

References

  1. IMDb - Strategic Command
  2. "Strategic Command (1997) Full Cast & Crew". Imdb.
  3. "Executive Command AKA Strategic Command (1997) Review | The Action Elite". www.theactionelite.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-15.
  4. "Executive Command aka Strategic Command (1997)".