Trivia: The cast underwent an intensive 8-week military training course before filming started.
Trivia: Real Green Berets helped with the actors' boot camp training.
Red Dawn (1984)
3 trivia entries
Directed by: John Milius
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Harry Dean Stanton
Visible crew/equipment: When Daryl wants to turn himself in, crew members are visible in the scene.
Prologue/Opening Narration: Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years... Labor and food riots in Poland. Soviet troops invade... Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strength goals of 500,000. El Salvador and Honduras fall... Greens Party gains control of West German Parliament. Demands withdrawal of nuclear weapons from European soil... Mexico plunged into revolution... NATO dissolves. United States stands alone.
Question: When Daryl is confronted by his friends, he tells them that he was forced to swallow something. What was it and why kill him if he was forced to do it?
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Answer: It was a tracking device which gave away their location. Since they couldn't remove it, they decided to kill him as he was now a liability.
Gavin Jackson
They killed him because he betrayed them.
How was Daryl forced to swallow it? Did they manage to apprehend him and force it down his throat, or was it something else entirely?