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Iron Eagle II

Iron Eagle II

19884.51h 45m

Overview

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Written by Sidney J. Furie, Kevin Alyn Elders
Produced by Jacob Kotzky, John Kemeny, Sharon Harel-Cohen
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Top Cast

Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr.

Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair

Mark Humphrey

Mark Humphrey

Capt. Matt Cooper

Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin

Gen. Stillmore

Alan Scarfe

Alan Scarfe

Col. Vardovsky

Sharon Hacohen

Sharon Hacohen

Valeri Zuyeniko

Maury Chaykin

Maury Chaykin

Sgt. Downs

Colm Feore

Colm Feore

Yuri Lebanov

Clark Johnson

Clark Johnson

Graves

Jason Blicker

Jason Blicker

Hickman

Jason Gedrick

Jason Gedrick

Doug Masters

Themes & Keywords

israelairplaneatomic bombcold warpilotu.s. air forceair forcecolonelaerial combatexplosionmilitaryair attack

About Iron Eagle II

Iron Eagle II is a action, adventure, drama, war film released in 1988 exploring themes of israel, airplane, atomic bomb, cold war, pilot, u.s. air force. Directed by Sidney J. Furie, it stars Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin. Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.

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