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Movie Review: Operation Dumbo Drop - Deseret News
August 02 1995
Among the wide array of Vietnam War movies that we've seen in the past 20 years, there haven't been many comedies. Much less family comedies.
But here comes "Operation Dumbo Drop," based (no doubt quite loosely) on a true story about American soldiers in 1968 transporting an elephant some 200 miles through the jungles of Vietnam to a small Montagnard village.
The village is being used by easygoing Capt. Cahill (Danny Glover) as a strategic outpost for keeping tabs on activity along the Ho Chi Min Trail, which is used by the Viet Cong to transport weapons.
But when the enemy discovers that villagers are cooperating with Americans, they shoot and kill their elephant, an animal that is both a tool for farming and a creature of worship.
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