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ATTACK FORCE Z
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About the DVD
Director: TIM BURSTALLFormat: PAL
Language: ENGLISH
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 20/10/2004
Run Time: 93 mins
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Special features
- Interview featurette with producer John McCallum & actors John Waters and Chris Haywood
- Theatrical Trailer
- Photo Gallery
Synopsis
A fresh-faced Mel Gibson, in his first role after Gallipoli and Mad Max 11, commands an elite military team dispatched during WW II to locate and rescue the survivors of a crashed plane shot down over a South Pacific island occupied by the Japanese. One of the castaways, a defecting Japanese official, holds the secret to ending the war, and must be saved at all costs.
Set in the Sambalang Straights in the South Pacific, this fast-paced action thriller in the tradition of The Guns of Navarone, boasts a top-notch cast including Gibson, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Dish), John Phillip Law (Barbarella) and John Waters (Breaker Morant). Made in 1981 and shot in Taiwan, Attack Force Z appeared at the Cannes Film Festival (1981), while the original director, Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American), was replaced by Tim Burstall (Alvin Purple) shortly before production began.
Set in the Sambalang Straights in the South Pacific, this fast-paced action thriller in the tradition of The Guns of Navarone, boasts a top-notch cast including Gibson, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Dish), John Phillip Law (Barbarella) and John Waters (Breaker Morant). Made in 1981 and shot in Taiwan, Attack Force Z appeared at the Cannes Film Festival (1981), while the original director, Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American), was replaced by Tim Burstall (Alvin Purple) shortly before production began.
