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Titolo originale: Red Dawn
Regia: John Milius |
Anno: 1984
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Thriller Guerra Dramma Fantascienza
Tag: guerrilla warfare | future | fight | colorado | invasion | anti-communism | fighting | school shooting | red army | town |
Cast: Patrick Swayze | Charlie Sheen | C. Thomas Howell | Lea Thompson | Darren Dalton | Jennifer Grey | Powers Boothe | Brad Savage | Ben Johnson | Harry Dean Stanton | William Smith | Ron O'Neal | Vladek Sheybal | Frank McRae | Lane Smith | Roy Jenson | Pepe Serna | Radames Pera | Judd Omen | Zitto Kazann | Doug Toby | Michael D'Agosta | Johelen Carleton | George Ganchev | Waldemar Kalinowski | Sam Slovick | Lois Kimbrell | Elan Oberon | Harley Christensen | Tacy Norwood | Fred Rexer | Michael Meisner | Victor Meisner | Raquel Provance | Vojislav Govedarica | Gene Scherer | Tom Ireland | Krzysztof Janczar | Phil Mead | Sam Dodge | Ben Zeller | Dan Sparks | Benjamin Schick | George Fisher | Chuk Besher | J.D. Ruybal | Pacho Lane | Julius L. Meyer |

Mentre la loro città viene occupata dai soldati stranieri, otto ragazzi riescono a scappare sulle montagne. Prendendo il nome dalla squadra di football della loro scuola, i Wolverines, iniziano un'incessante guerriglia in difesa dei loro genitori, degli amici e del loro paese.

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The first film with a PG-13 Rating. D
"Red Dawn" was the given code name of the military operation in Iraq that captured Saddam Hussein on [...] D
The movie takes place during the span of 6 months plus but during this time, none of the characters' [...] D
Near the end of the movie, Jed and Matt climb onto a flatcar that's slowly moving in order to escape [...] D
The production crew built a gas station. Tourists driving by tried to fill up there, thinking it was [...] D
The first motion picture released with an MPAA PG-13 rating, on August 10, 1984. (Flamingo Kid (1984 [...] D
Five of the thirty-six paratroopers in the beginning of the movie did get blown as much as a mile of [...] D
Patrick Swayze got frostbite during filming. A few years later, he said it still felt like someone s [...] D
The Russian leader of the invaders is Strelnikov. In Il dottor Zivago (1965), schoolteacher Pasha An [...] D
The original title of the script was "Ten Soldiers." D
The film's closing epilogue, which is the same as the inscription on the "Partisan Rock" plaque, sta [...] D
Jed writes his own name as well as Matt's name on the rock before both are shot and presumably kille [...] D
The Russian text seen in red lettering above the movie's title in the film and on movie posters is R [...] D
The napalm was created by filling a plastic plumbing tube with gasoline and setting it off in sectio [...] D
As it got colder, the actors and actresses had to adapt to freezing temperatures, often well below 0 [...] D
When three Russian soldiers drive up into the mountains near where the Wolverines are hiding, they s [...] D
The film's opening prologue states: "Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years. Labor and [...] D
Cast members William Smith, Frank McRae, and Zitto Kazann all passed away in 2021. D
Many of the fighting techniques the actors learned came from Native American tribes, like the Apache [...] D
Patrick Swayze, Ron O'Neal and Powers Boothe all died from pancreatic cancer. D
The film made the Guinness Book of Records for having the most acts of violence of any film up to th [...] D
Lea Thompson said that this is the best time she's ever had on a movie. D
The original movie tagline said, "In our time, no foreign army has ever occupied American soil." Som [...] D
In 1984 Patrick Swayze allegedly fell in love with the Las Vegas New Mexico area after the filming o [...] D
The blast from an exploding jet was so strong, it knocked five trailers off their foundations. D
The movie theater in the movie is showing Alessandro Nevsky (1938), about a Russian Prince fighting [...] D
A love scene between the characters played by Lea Thompson and Powers Boothe was filmed but cut afte [...] D
In game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the campaign where the Russians invade the United States is [...] D
Second of two films that Patrick Swayze made with John Milius. The other being Fratelli nella notte [...] D
First produced feature film screenplay (co-written) and story of Kevin Reynolds. D
According to Powers Boothe, Charlie Sheen came up to him during one scene and asked if he was doing [...] D
A Cuban soldier uses a shoulder-mounted missile launcher against an American Huey when the former ov [...] D
The Soviet aircraft Colonel Tanner blows up with a hand grenade is a Yak-38 (NATO name; Forger) a ve [...] D
Emilio Estevez was originally cast as Jed, but had to drop out due to other filming commitments. D
Powers Boothe's character was originally written as a proud military man who was also anti-war, and [...] D
The ivory gripped revolver passed down to Jed (Patrick Swayze) from his granddaddy is a model 1873 C [...] D
The line "John has a long mustache" was also used as a message to the underground in Il giorno pi� [...] D
The Mayor's car is a 1963 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible. D
Daryl's car was a 1969 Pontiac Ventura Hardtop Sedan. D
Soldier of Fortune Magazine said that the film's T-72 tank was such a good replica that "while it wa [...] D
Two C.I.A. men came to the set, having received reports of Russian tanks in the area. They were reli [...] D
The illustration of Genghis Khan in the high school classroom at the beginning of the film is a cari [...] D
In the movie, the Wolverines bomb the invaders' regional headquarters. On August 3, 2006, heavy thun [...] D
The sprocket wheel on all modern tanks is in the rear. The replica Soviet equipment was mostly Ameri [...] D
Frank McRae, Ben Johnson, and Harry Dean Stanton all costarred in Dillinger (1973), which was also d [...] D
When Erica finds the air man, she tries to ascertain his nationality by asking him to identify the c [...] D
Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Jade Estevez was born 5 months later in December 1984. D
The movie was released in 1984, the same as the title of a George Orwell novel about totalitarianism [...] D
Because of the extremely cold conditions, the cast and crew all had to wear Everest assault suits. D
A more in-depth love story between Jed (Patrick Swayze) and Toni (Jennifer Grey) was cut from the fi [...] D
There are no computer graphics effects, chroma key composites or miniatures in the movie, all of the [...] D
An old Safeway grocery store in Las Vegas, New Mexico was converted to a soundstage, and used for se [...] D
The plot, a Soviet and Cuban invasion from Mexico, was based on C.I.A. and War College studies of U. [...] D
Captain Dale Dye was the military adviser for this film, he was also in charge of putting the cast a [...] D
After the boot camp, in order to get into the mindset of how a guerrilla fighter employs their tacti [...] D
William Smith, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, and Darren Dalton appeared in I ragazzi della 56� [...] D
Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell also appeared together in I ragazzi della 56ª strada (1983) a [...] D
Patrick Swayze stayed in character throughout filming. He said, "I became Jed Eckert". D
Roy Jenson plays the father of Robert Morris, one of the main characters in a band of American teena [...] D
The film takes place in 1989. D
William Smith, who played the Spetsnaz commander Strelnikov, didn't receive any special language tra [...] D
Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey appeared in Una pazza giornata di vacanza (1986). D
C. Thomas Howell had been a rodeo cowboy. He helped teach the rest of the cast to ride horses. D
The U.S. flag in the classroom at the start of the movie, and other scenes, is a forty-eight-star fl [...] D
The original trailer, on the LaserDisc release, includes a scene with a tank rolling up to a McDonal [...] D
In the film, Toni (Jennifer Grey) sneaks into town and blows up the "Soviet-American Friendship Cent [...] D
During their boot camp training, the actors only got to eat when their instructor felt they earned i [...] D
The upbeat epilogue showing Partisan Rock, with the voice-over explaining that America eventually wo [...] D
All of the military vehicles were supplied by Veluzat Motion Picture Rentals, run by two brothers. R [...] D
The actors trained using real weapons so that they wouldn't make mistakes using the prop ones. Lea T [...] D
The AK-47's used in the film are Egyptian Maadi ARM rifles. In 1983 roughly 2000 of the rifles were [...] D
The scene of the Soviet paratroopers arriving in Calumet to battle the Wolverines is an homage to th [...] D
Writer and director John Milius carried a loaded pistol around on-set with him. D
The story was originally to be set in the real town of Calumet, Michigan. It was moved to a fictiona [...] D
The scene where the T-72 rolls up to the gas station has a Russian officer wearing a blue beret. Tha [...] D
Colonel Tanner is asked which country was on America's side. He replies '600 million screaming China [...] D
After the USAF LTC is shot down in his F-15 and is found by Lea Thompson's character, she interrogat [...] D
There are a number of classic American firearms in the movie; C. Thomas Howell uses a Winchester 191 [...] D
Jed's truck was a 1977 Chevrolet K-10 Cheyenne Stepside. D
The Soviet Mi-24 Hind helicopters featured in this film are modified Sud-Aviation SA 330 Pumas fitte [...] D
Real Green Berets helped with the actors' boot camp training. D
Though the story takes place in Colorado, it was mostly filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico. In the shor [...] D
Lane Smith, who portrayed mayor Bates who collaborates with the enemy in this movie also portrays a [...] D
Red Dawn is one of the coldest productions on record, as temperatures dropped to -30 below zero seve [...] D
This movie was banned from theaters in Finland during its release. The reasons for the ban were exce [...] D
The cast underwent an intensive eight-week military training course before filming started. D
Some movie posters for the film featured a long text preamble that read: "8:44 A.M. A full scale mil [...] D
Pancreatic cancer claimed three actors from this movie. Ron O'Neal died of pancreatic cancer in 2004 [...] D
John Milius, Basil Poledouris, and William Smith previously worked together on Conan il barbaro (198 [...] D
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some abandoned Russian tanks in Ukraine were spray pain [...] D
Leif Garrett was considered for a major role. D
John Milius wanted the movie to show the futility of war. D
Charlie Sheen's feature film debut. D
At the end of the movie, Colonel Bella (Ron O'Neal) said to Jed (Patrick Swayze), "Vaya con Dios," w [...] D
Originally, the setting was set in Michigan before changing to Colorado. One of the Michigan element [...] D
John Milius gave most of his notes to the actors through Patrick Swayze. Swayze said, "Of course, a [...] D