Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Simon Wincer

Writers (WGA):

James Morris (story)
Gene Quintano (written by) ...

Release Date:

28 July 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | War

Tagline:

When you weigh four tons, it's hard to be a secret weapon.

Plot:

To keep the loyalty of a native village during the Vietnam war, a US Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.

Plot Keywords:

Elephant | Vietnam | Lifting Person In Air | Cargo Plane | Airlift

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 18

7:00 AM

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Cast

Danny Glover	...	Capt. Sam Cahill
Ray Liotta	...	Capt. T.C. Doyle
Denis Leary	...	Lt. David Poole
Doug E. Doug	...	Sp4 Harvey (H.A.) Ashford
Corin Nemec	...	Sp5 Lawrence Farley
Dinh Thien Le	...	Linh
Tchéky Karyo	...	Goddard (as Tcheky Karyo)
Hoang Ly	...	Colonel Nguyen
Vo Trung Anh	...	Lt. Quang, NVA
Marshall Bell	...	Colonel Pederson
James Hong	...	Y B'ham
Long Nguyen	...	Jhon
Tim Kelleher	...	C-123 Pilot
Scott N. Stevens	...	C-123 Co-Pilot
Kevin LaRosa	...	Irish, Huey Pilot #1 (as Kevin Larosa)

Also Known As:

Dumbo Drop

MPAA:

Rated PG for war action and language.

Runtime:

107 min | Finland:104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Vietnamese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:All | Germany:6 (f) | Philippines:G | Australia:PG | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | UK:PG (video premiere) | USA:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When BoTat and the Soldiers come under fire boating down the river, if you watch carefully, one of the mortar rounds can be seen bouncing partially out of the mortar pipe on deck the VC boat and falling back in instead of being fired out like it should.

Quotes:

[Goddard is singing along to a record of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" - badly]
Capt. Sam Cahill: Is it my ears, or has your singing actually gotten worse?
Goddard: Must be your ears, it was already as bad as it could be!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Just Shoot Me!: Christmas? Christmas! (#6.9)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ARIA

No physical problem there

Everything on Earth is accelerated by gravity at the same rate (about 10 meters per second per second), regardless of its mass, so heavy things fall as quickly as light things provided there is no air-resistance. As the elephant likely had a greater surface area, and thus more air resistance, a human (especially one consciously attempting to minimize air resistance) might have been able to catch it. Now as to the size of a parachute necessary for an elephant, I'll leave that as an exercise to you :)