Tank

 

TITLE-Tank

SOURCE-DVD Rip off PLEX

It's odd how memory works. I doubt I have seen this movie since 85 or 86. But I remembered the last 10 minutes of the film clearly.

Released in 1984 starring Jame Garner and Shirley Jones,plus a young C Thomas Howell,this is a story about Garner who is in the Army. He is nearing retirement age. All he wants to do is spend time with his one son and finish his contract. They just moved to a new base in rural Georgia.

All is well until Garner goes to a local bar. Where he learns the sheriff deputy runs a brothel out of some trailers behind the bar. This all snowballs into the deputy planting drugs in Garner's son's school locker. So Garner ,the hooker(played by Jennilee Harrison) hop in the Sherman tank Garner owns. Break out the son and are heading to the GA/TN state line.

Fairly simple plot. And it is a movie that if I hadn't seen it as a kid I doubt I would have watched it again the other night. What saves this film is the acting. Jame Garner is a guy I have enjoyed in pretty much everything I have seen him in. I was surprised with Jennilee Harrison. Only having seen her short run on 3s company. She shows more range in this film than she ever did on that show.

So that ending part that I remembered? The mayor of the town with the hookers and corrupt deputy has set up a trap for Garner and his tank. They block the road with 18 wheelers. And the field the tank tries to cross is muddy. The Tank gets stuck. And somehow the Mayor has gotten a anti tank rocket launcher. Which misses.

Thankfully a local biker bar had this story on the tv. So the biker gang comes and using a piece of heavy construction equipment drags the tank across the state line.

Yea this is nothing I will go watch more than once every 30 years. Not that is it a bad film. It made for a fun movie night. 

Tank gets a C+