Movie: Red Dawn (1984)

“It is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon, they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops….under the banner of ‘Woverines’! Written by Derek O’Cain”

  • Director: John Milius
  • Release Date: 10 August 1984 (USA)
  • Run Time: 114 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Action , Adventure , Drama

Tagline: A full scale military invasion by foreign troops begins. Total surprise. Almost total success . . . .

Trivia: The submachine gun that Strelnikov uses near the end of the film is a Jati-matic GG-95 PDW, a Finnish-made weapon that is one of about 400 that were manufactured in the mid-’80s.

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While it’s true that, towards the beginning of the movie, right after the invasion, you see the dead man laying behind his truck. If you look, you will see a pool of blood and two empty shell casings from his Colt 1911A1. When the Russian paratrooper picks up the pistol, the hammer is in the fired position and the slide is locked forward. If he had fired this pistol, the hammer would either be back, ready to fire or the slide would be locked back denoting the pistol is empty, but it is very possible that when the gun was fired, the primer failed to ignite (a dud), and would account for a hammer dropped and the slide engaged.

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