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Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American war film directed, produced by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film co-stars Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, and Mario Van Peebles, and was released in the United States on December 5, 1986. The story centers on a U.S. Marine nearing retirement who gets a platoon of undisciplined Marines into shape and leads them during the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. The title comes…
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Source This film was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood in 1986. There are many clichés in the story, including the usual propaganda material of American war films. Like the initial incompetence of the new recruits, the process that turns them into expert warriors, the rampant impunity with which American troops fight in third countries, the typical soldier who cries and begs for mercy while killing his e…More
US invasion of Grenada is the event that some historians view as the turning point of Cold War. Control over small Caribbean island nation might not have meant much in the grand scheme of things, but the operation proved to be the first clear American military success since Vietnam humiliation and gave enough confidence to Reagan’s America to take course which would result in the end of Soviet Union and establishmen…More
