The Soldier

The Soldier (1982)

You don't assign him. You unleash him.

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Date of release
1982-06-01
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (43)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller
Director
James Glickenhaus

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $6.3M
  • Budget: $6M
  • Earned 1.1× its budget

The Soldier is a 1982 American action thriller film written, directed, and produced by James Glickenhaus. It stars Ken Wahl as the title character, a covert CIA agent assigned to eliminate renegade KGB agents that have threatened to detonate a dirty bomb in the Ghawar Oil Field. The cast also features Alberta Watson, William Prince, Joaquim de Almeida, and Klaus Kinski. The original score was composed and performed by the German electronic band Tangerine Dream.

Production

James Glickenhaus first conceived the film's premise after reading John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy which explained the methods by which plutonium is transported. Glickenhaus scouted locations in West Berlin and Munich, Germany, after receiving an offer of West German financing, provided that the project be set partially in that country.

The film was shot on location in Philadelphia, Buffalo, New York City, West Berlin, and Israel. A sequence was filmed at the actual Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, the first time a film production had received permission to do so. The ski sequence was shot in St Anton am Arlberg, Austria.

According to an interview with director Glickenhaus, the scene with Klaus Kinski was added when the production was under budget and they were able to get Kinski for one day.

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