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Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia... - Salvador
Movie Details

Title: Salvador

Release Date: 23 Apr 1986

Runtime: 2h 3m

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Hemdale, Cinema '85, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Companies: Hemdale, Cinema '85, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview: In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.

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Average Vote: 7 (356 votes)

Cast

  • Richard Boyle: James Woods
  • Doctor Rock: Jim Belushi
  • Ambassador Thomas Kelly: Michael Murphy
  • John Cassady: John Savage
  • Maria: Elpidia Carrillo
  • Major Maximilliano Casanova: Tony Plana
  • Jack Morgan: Colby Chester
  • Cathy Moore: Cynthia Gibb
  • Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr.: Will MacMillan
  • Pauline Axelrod: Valerie Wildman
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