Inchon (1981)
Director:
Terence YoungWriters:
Robin Moore (screenplay), Laird Koenig(screenplay)Stars:
Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara2 Reviews Hide Reviews Show Reviews
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Revived Rarity
Good quality disc at a low price promptly shipped.
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Don't Knock It til You've Watched It
Inchon is far far better than the hype of people who haven't seen it. Yes, Olivier gives a weird performance as General MacArthur, sometimes taking the role seriously, sometimes appearing to have wandered in from a Naked Gun like parody. But Olivier is not on the screen long enough to ruin the movie. It is a good, solid "B" movie with "A" movie production values. There are several subplots. There is the war itself with the bad guys suitably bad and the good guys complex. There is a moving story involving a Colonel's estranged wife as she becomes responsible for rescuing a car load of orphans. There is the Colonel himself, torn between his love for his wife and his love for a Korean woman. There are the Korean people themselves, forming a resistance to the inexorable attack of North Korea. This is a movie worth watching, especially in the current climate in Korea.