Let's Get Harry
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| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg (as Alan Smithee) |
| Screenplay by | Charles Robert Carner |
| Story by | Mark Feldberg Samuel Fuller |
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Michael Schoeffling Thomas F. Wilson Glenn Frey Rick Rossovich Gary Busey Mark Harmon Robert Duvall |
| Music by | Brad Fiedel |
| Cinematography | James A. Contner |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $140,980 |
Let's Get Harry is a 1986 action film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Rick Rossovich, Gary Busey, Mark Harmon and Robert Duvall. Rosenberg chose to credit the film to Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by directors who repudiate their involvement in a film.
The film opens in Colombia with an American engineer named Harry Burck (Harmon) on hand to oversee the opening of a water pipeline built by his company. Harry becomes embroiled in a kidnapping when a group of rebels arrives to kidnap an American diplomat who is on hand for the pipe's unveiling.
Word of the kidnapping reaches back to Harry's brother Corey (Schoeffling) and his friends Bob (Wilson), cocaine addict Spence (Frey) and Kurt (Rossovich), who were all awaiting Harry's return home to Illinois. The men, all coworkers at the same factory, learn that Harry was kidnapped by a drug lord named Carlos Ochobar. Corey and Bob travel to Washington, D.C. to seek assistance from the U.S. government, only to be rebuffed and told that the government is not going to mount any rescue attempt for Harry. We learn that the men (and everyone in the town) hold Harry in high regard, and that Harry's father, Harry Burck, Sr. (Ben Johnson), is despondent over the kidnapping of his son.
Kurt reminds his friends that they all owe Harry something, so he says their only choice is to rescue him themselves. Despite some resistance and skepticism from Kurt and Spence, all the men eventually agree to go. Before heading to Colombia, they enlist the financial help of a local car salesman named Jack (Gary Busey), who insists on going along as a condition of funding the rescue, and the military expertise of a decorated no-nonsense mercenary named Norman Shrike (Robert Duvall).
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