Iron Eagle

A teenager enlists the help of a veteran Air Force Colonel when his pilot father’s plane is shot down over enemy territory., Louis Gossett Jr. stars in Sidney J. Furie’s preposterous reactionary blockbuster Iron Eagle. The story concerns the 18-year-old Doug Masters (Jason Gedrick), the son of jet fighter pilot Ted Masters (Tim Thomerson). Ted’s plane is shot down in the Middle East and he is sentenced to be executed by terrorists. When Doug asks the U.S. government and the Air Force for help in rescuing his father, they are unwilling to do anything. Doug goes to see one of Ted’s old Air Force buddies, Chappy (Louis Gossett Jr.) and he helps the boy take an F-16 and they head to the Middle East, blowing up oil refineries and airports, insisting that Ted be released from captivity., A teenager enlists the help of a veteran Air Force Colonel when his pilot father??s plane is shot down over enemy territory. Action., Action adventure about a teenage boy who steals an F-16 fighter jet to save his kidnapped father in the Middle East. Learning that his father has been shot down for venturing too close to the border of an Arab country, the boy is appalled by the authorities’ reaction. He persuades his friends to engineer the safe passage of his plane to the Middle East and asks a retired Air Force colonel to help him beat the complex security system., Action adventure about a teenage boy who steals an F-16 fighter jet to save his kidnapped father in the Middle East. Learning that his father has been shot down for venturing too close to the border of an Arab country, the boy is appalled by the authorities’ reaction. He manages to engineer the safe passage of his plane to the Middle East and gets a retired Air Force colonel to help him beat the complex security system., A pilot’s son (Jason Gedrick) plans his father’s rescue from an Arab country, with help from a retired officer (Louis Gossett Jr.) and an F-16. Defense Minister: David Suchet. Ted: Tim Thomerson. Reggie: Larry B. Scott. Elizabeth: Caroline Lagerfelt. Tony: Jerry Levine. Milo: Robbie Rist. Knotcher: Michael Bowen. Matthew: Bobby Jacoby. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.