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Based on a true story about Airman William H. Pitsenbarger (Jeremy Irvine), a para-rescueman in Vietnam who sacrificed his life saving others, writer and director Todd Robinsonâs feature serves as a tribute to Pitsenbarger and the men who were impacted by the war.
Christopher Plummer and Diane Ladd portray Pitsenbargerâs parents, Frank and Alice. Sebastian Stan is Scott Huffman, a Pentagon civilian tasked with finding out why Pitsenbarger did not receive the Congressional Medal of Honor as had been recommended.
At first, Huffman blows off the investigation, knowing that he would be leaving his job soon and, of course, it takes years to investigate these matters. His coworker Carlton Stanton (Bradley Whitfield) advises Stan âto leave it for the next guy.â But as Huffman contacts the men who know about what happened during combat in Vietnam decades earlier, he begins to change his perspe
When
Henry Czerny started appearing in Hollywood movies, you could be forgiven for thinking he had a type: the suspicious government agent. In his first mainstream movie,
Clear and Present Danger, Czerny portrayed American agent Robert Ritter opposite Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan. Soon enough, he’d face off against another swaggering American star as another suspicious spy, CIA Director Eugene Kittridge in the Tom Cruise-starring 1996 film
Mission: Impossible. 25 years later, as the original film celebrates its anniversary, Czerny is finally returning to the fold as Kittridge in the upcoming seventh installment.
/Film sat down virtually with Czerny to talk about his experience working on the first film, facing off against Tom Cruise in a restaurant doubling as an aquarium, and why he wondered if he talked himself out of being in the second film in 2000.
I was a movieholic, admitted Tucker, whose first deployment was under the tactical, speed-infused command of future Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. Col. Al Gray, operating from the amphibious warship, USS Inchon. Growing up in Woodruff, South Carolina, it was Saturday matinees with Jeff Chandler in Merrill s Marauders, Van Heflin in Battle Cry, John Wayne in Flying Leathernecks and Jack Webb in The D.I., he said.
After 22 years in the Corps that included a climb from private to the NCO ranks and, finally, the railroad tracks he earned as a brand new captain, the Desert Storm vet retired and launched into a very successful endeavor producing quality videos for Marines and their families.
The actor, 31, suited up in World War II military uniform to play the role of Major John Egan as the sleepy village of Bray was transported back to the 1940s for the long-awaited miniseries.