| The Human Shield | |
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| Directed by | Ted Post |
| Written by | Mann Rubin |
| Starring | Michael Dudikoff |
| Distributed by | Cannon Films |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Human Shield is a 1991 low-budget American film fromB-movie film studioCannon Films. It was directed byTed Post and written byMann Rubin and[1] starsMichael Dudikoff andTommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.[2]
In 1985, during theIran–Iraq War, Colonel Doug Matthews (Michael Dudikoff), is a U.S. Marine hired to help train Iraqi troops to fight off the Iranians. He arrives somewhere in the northern part of Iraq only to discover that stormtroopers are killing people in the nearby village. Doug disagrees with this and attacks Dallai, the leader of the Iraqi troops, but loses. Five years later, in August, at Baghdad Airport, the news reports that Iraq has invaded Kuwait and that all foreign nationals are to be evacuated. Ben Matthews (Tommy Hinkley), Doug's diabetic brother, who is a teacher, is taken away from his wife and child by Iraqi guards for interrogation and is held hostage to lure Doug in to a trap.
Emanuel Levy ofVariety magazine called it " a lame, small-budget actioner that exploits its political context without delivering the expected thrills of the genre."[3]
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