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Initial release
  
June 1982

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Directed by
  
Written by
  
James Glickenhaus

Cinematography
  
Robert M. Baldwin

Director
  
James Glickenhaus

Screenplay
  
James Glickenhaus

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Starring
  
Ken WahlAlberta WatsonJeremiah SullivanWilliam PrinceKlaus Kinski

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Movies about the CIA, Cold war movies, Action movies

The soldier 1982


The Soldier (also released as Codename: The Soldier) is a 1982 American Cold War action film directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Ken Wahl. The film also features Klaus Kinski, Alberta Watson and a cameo by country music superstar George Strait.

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Plot

Renegade KGB agents hijack a plutonium shipment inside the United States and use it to plant a nuclear device in the Saudi Arabian Ghawar oilfield. They threaten to detonate it, thereby contaminating 50% of the world's oil reserve, unless Israel withdraws its settlements from the West Bank. The fact that the KGB is behind this threat is unknown, as the culprits are believed by the Israelis and Americans to be Islamic fundamentalist extremists. The American president contemplates starting a war with Israel, in order to save the world from oil crisis. The director of the CIA offers the president an alternative solution.

A CIA agent codenamed The Soldier (Ken Wahl), working outside the usual channels, is assigned to the case. After Russian agent Dracha (Klaus Kinski) attempts to terminate him, he contacts the CIA director from the US embassy in Berlin. A KGB agent assassinates the director and frames The Soldier for his murder, leaving no official knowledge of his activities other than the president, who has disavowed any knowledge of his actions. On the run from his own government, he seeks refuge in the Israeli embassy. He and his team cooperate with the Israeli Mossad, represented by their director of covert operations Susan Goodman (Alberta Watson). Meanwhile, the president authorizes military action against Israel.

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Given the unpleasant options of the KGB destroying a large part of the world's oil supply or the United States having to invoke a military response to force Israel to remove its settlements from the West Bank, the title character decides to take a third option. His team infiltrates and captures a US nuclear missile silo in Smith Center, Kansas, and obtains independent launch capability. As the American military launches their air strikes toward Israel, The Soldier and Susan break into East Berlin by launching their car over the Berlin Wall, confronting the KGB agents and informing them that if their nuke in Saudi Arabia is detonated, his team in Smith Center will nuke Moscow. This forces the Russian KGB to dismantle their device in Saudi Arabia and the American air strike is recalled.

Cast

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  • Ken Wahl as The Soldier
  • Alberta Watson as Susan Goodman
  • Jeremiah Sullivan as Ivan
  • William Prince as The President
  • Joaquim de Almeida as The Soldier's Force
  • Peter Hooten as The Soldier's Force
  • Steve James as The Soldier's Force
  • Alexander Spencer as The Soldier's Force
  • Klaus Kinski as Dracha
  • Bill Anagnos as Truck Driver/Cowboy 1
  • Bob Andrews as ICBM Guard
  • Lisa Cain as Cowgirl 2
  • Jeffrey Jones as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • Gerald Aleck Cantor as Customs Officer
  • Anthony Cecere as Nuclear Guard
  • Al Cerullo as Dauphin Pilot
  • George Strait as himself (performing "Fool Hearted Memory")

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    References

    The Soldier (1982 film) Wikipedia