Strategic Command (film)

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| director = Rick Jacobson

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| starring = Michael Dudikoff
Amanda Wyss
Richard Norton
Paul Winfield
Bryan Cranston
Stephen Quadros

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| released = {{Film date|1997}}

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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.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120224/ IMDb - Strategic Command] The film was written by Sean McGinly and Tripp Reed.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120224/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=Strategic Command (1997) Full Cast & Crew|website=Imdb}}

Plot

Rick Harding (Michael Dudikoff) is a former US Marine officer, now working as biological weapons scientist for the FBI.{{cite web |url=http://www.theactionelite.com/site/movie-review/executive-command-aka-strategic-command-1997-review/ |title=Executive Command AKA Strategic Command (1997) Review {{!}} The Action Elite |website=www.theactionelite.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115001412/http://www.theactionelite.com/site/movie-review/executive-command-aka-strategic-command-1997-review/ |archive-date=2018-01-15}} The movie starts, with Harding's lab being infiltrated, which results in terrorists getting their hands on a deadly nerve agent called 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 Air Force Two and save the Vice President and his wife.{{Cite web|url=http://www.explosiveaction.com/2010/06/executive-command-aka-strategic-command.html|title = Executive Command aka Strategic Command (1997)}}

Cast

Michael Dudikoff as Dr. Rick Harding
Amanda Wyss as Michelle Harding
Richard Norton as Carlos Gruber
Paul Winfield as Rowan
Stephen Quadros as Vlos
Bryan Cranston as Phil Hertzberg

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

Category:1997 films

Category:American aviation films

Category:American action films

Category:1990s English-language films

Category:Films directed by Rick Jacobson

Category:1990s American films