Rescue
Adventure/ Drama
Feature Film

In Washington a middle-aged man, JACK NICHOLS, goes to see his Congressman. Nichols’ daughter, Claudia has been kidnapped by a breakaway Khmer Rouge guerrilla group in Cambodia . But Washington can’t help.

Nichols raises as much money as he can and heads for Bangkok , Thailand , where an ex-special Forces man, HARRY DEAN, now runs a saloon. Nichols persuades Harry to put together a team to rescue his daughter.

The team is a wild bunch of assorted characters: BRUNO, with whom Harry has a mentoring relationship; the enigmatic WOODS; cold-as-ice ENGLISH; the “Peaceful-tis-he’s-roused” man-mountain PARIS; “Off- the-planet and off-the-wall” HAZE; Harry’s ex-vet pal REDDICK; sharpshooter STEFANELLI; loverman REUBEN; the buffed-up WES; and their sophisticated Cambodian guide TRAN.

Pretending to be a documentary film crew the team piles into a bus to travel from Bangkok to head for the Cambodian border. But the late-as-usual Bruno is missing. The bus leaves without him, but picks him up (literally) as he’s being chased on his motor bike by some Thai gangsters.

Not long after crossing the border into Cambodia the bus is brought to halt by a Cambodian “army patrol”, and surrounded by a group of army vehicles. With guns pointed at the men they climb down from the bus. It looks like big trouble, but turns out to be their supplies of weaponry that the Cambodians swap for cameras and photographic equipment.

Unfortunately, as they are checking the weapons, Wes discharges his rifle, killing one of the Cambodians. Wes is distraught, and goes to explain to the Cambodian officer, but instead is shot. A bloody battle ensues. The rest of the team survives and goes on to take the army jeeps and drive onwards to head for the river.

RICK, the boat skipper, and his wife MARAMET help them transfer everything onto the river boat. Rick tells Tran that he thinks he might know where a group of hostages are being held – up river 4-5 hours.

As they motor up the tranquil river a boat suddenly heads straight for them. Bandits! With most of the team below deck the bandits pull alongside. English dives overboard and silently swims to the other side of the bandit boat. He kills one of the bandits, grabs his gun and starts shooting. A massive conflict ensues which finally ends as the bandits boat explodes in flames.

The bandits are wiped out but Harry Dean is badly wounded. However, before he dies, he tells the reluctant Bruno that he’ll have to take over.

They continue up river. At night time they approach the village where the hostages are being held. But there is a deathly silence in the village. All they find are dead bodies. And Claudia isn’t amongst them.

As Haze is looking for drugs he opens a booby-trapped box which explodes and kills him.

Then they discover a teenager hiding in the bushes. He leads them as they set out through the jungle to another village. They wade across rivers and through thicker growth.

Eventually they come to the village. Here they plainly see Khmer Rouge cadres. They spread out to approach a hooch that appears to be guarded. Under cover of dark a small group approaches the hooch and silently kill the guards.

As they enter the hooch there is a scream from Claudia - nine months pregnant and in labor. A Cambodian woman is looking after her. The team starts to carry her out, but another scream alerts the other cadres.

What follows is a war. Explosions, shooting, fire, smoke and screams fill the air. Many of the team are killed. In the middle of it all Claudia delivers her baby.

When the fighting finally dies down the teenage boy leads the remaining few back to the river.

They finally return to the Cambodian/Thai border where Nichols is emotionally re-united with his daughter and meets his granddaughter for the first time.