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Mar 27, 1992 · The Human Shield: Directed by Ted Post. With Michael Dudikoff, Tommy Hinkley, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Steve Inwood. An ex-Marine who was hired to train Iraqi soldiers to fight Iran returns to Iraq as a CIA agent to free his brother, who has been imprisoned there by a renegade general.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Ted Post
- 1992-03-27
The Human Shield is a 1991 low-budget American film from B-movie film studio Cannon Films. It was directed by Ted Post and written by Mann Rubin and stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
A Marine-trained CIA agent (Michael Dudikoff) goes to Iraq to rescue his brother (Tommy Hinkley) from a Saddam Hussein look-alike.
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- Ted Post
- R
- Michael Dudikoff
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A human shield is a non-combatant (or a group of non-combatants) who either volunteers or is forced to shield a legitimate military target in order to deter the enemy from attacking it. [1] The concept of human shields as a resistance measure was created by Mahatma Gandhi as a weapon of resistance. [2]
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This forgettable late-period Cannon actioner comes with a dollop of reactionary camp. Michael Dudikoff, in painted-on dad jeans, must infiltrate Iraq alone and battle a warlord from his past to save his diabetic brother.
