A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons
and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a
former highly-decorated U. S. general, demands $100 million to be paid
in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert
operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is
threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the
San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI
chemical warfare expert (Stanley Goodspeed) and a former Alcatraz
escapee (John Mason), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists'
defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs
out.
Summary written by: Tad Dibbern {DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu}
Sean Connery ..... John Patrick Mason Nicolas Cage ..... Dr. Stanley Goodspeed Ed Harris ..... Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel John Spencer ..... FBI Director James Womack David Morse ..... Major Tom Baxter William Forsythe ..... Special Agent Ernest Paxton, FBI Michael Biehn ..... S.E.A.L Commander Anderson Vanessa Marcil ..... Carla John C. McGinley ..... Marine Captain Hendrix Gregory Sporleder ..... Captain Frye Tony Todd ..... Captain Darrow Bokeem Woodbine ..... Gunnery Sargeant Crisp Jim Maniaci ..... Private Scarpetti Greg Collins ..... Private Gamble Brendan Kelly ..... Cox
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