The Peacekeeper ( The Peace keeper )

The Peacekeeper (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Alternate Title: The Peace keeper
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Frédéric Forestier

Written By:
Stewart Harding
Robert Geoffrion

Actors:
Dolph Lundgren ..... Major Frank Cross
Michael Sarrazin ..... Lt. Colonel Douglas Murphy
Montel Williams ..... Lt. Colonel Northrop
Roy Scheider ..... President Robert Baker
Christopher Heyerdahl ..... Hettinger
Allen Altman ..... McGarry
Martin Neufeld ..... Decker
Monika Schnarre ..... Jane
Tim Post ..... Nelson
Carl Alacchi ..... Holbrook
Chip Chuipka ..... Davis
Roc LaFortune ..... Abbott
Gouchy Boy ..... Robinson
Phil Chiu ..... Kong
Serge Houde ..... Secretary of Defense

Synopsis:

As a punishment for defying orders on a previous mission, air force major Frank Cross (Dolph Lundgren) is assigned to protect the American President (Roy Scheider) and his 'black bag'. This contains the codes for launching America's nuclear missiles. Terrorists soon attack, snatching the bag and nearly killing Frank in the process. After a high-speed chase, the terrorists are tracked to a missile factory, from where they intend to launch the nuclear devices at Washington unless the President kills himself on live television. It is up to Frank to stop them.

United States air force Major Frank Cross is in trouble with the 'brass' again. This time he's made an unauthorized humanitarian relief flight ... dropping sacks of rice to starving Kurds. To the press, he's a hero. The Pentagon would like to court martial him, but can't because the President wants the highly photogenic media hero by his side--at least until after the next election. So Cross has a new assignment. He's to carry the 'black bag'-- the President's high-tech briefcase containing the 'go codes' and communications computer for launching America's nuclear ICBM arsenal in case of national emergency. It should be a piece of cake, but... On his first day on the job, a team of mercenaries steal the briefcase and drop Cross off a tenth floor balcony. Miraculously, he not only survives, but pursues the terrorists in a hijacked taxi. The ensuing car chase careens through the alleyways and streets of Chicago, up the ramps of a parking garage and then, unexpectedly, continues over the rooftops of the adjacent buildings! When the taxi takes a fiery plunge off one of the buildings, the mercenaries think they've seen the last of him ... but Cross has bailed out and manages to stowaway on the helicopter that plucks them, and the black bag, from the rooftops, into the night sky and onwards to their final target... United States Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Facility K-7. Disguised as one of the terrorists, Cross slips into the missile silo as the crack team murders the silo personnel and takes over launch control using the secret codes contained in the black bag. Led by ex-Marine Colonel Douglas Murphy, who went 'missing in action' during an undercover operation in Iraq, they launch a terrifying warning shot: a Peacekeeper nuclear missile that destroys Mount Rushmore! Only then does Murphy call the President and make his chilling demand. The President is to kill himself in front of a live television audience, or the two remaining nuclear missiles will be targeted on Washington D.C. Only Frank Cross, Joined by the surviving commander of the Missile Facility, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Northrop, can stop the madness that threatens the President and millions of civilians. The odds are overwhelming. The countdown has started. The PEACEKEEPER is ready to blast off!

When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 October, 2014.