1968 Tunnel Rats (2008) on Netflix
In 1968, the US Army forms a unit of tunnel rats to clear the Viet Cong's tunnel network at Cu Chi. Vic Hollowborn leads his men underground with bayonets, pistols and flashlights.
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Plot summary
The US Army creates the Tunnel Rats, a unit trained for hand-to-hand fighting underground, after Viet Cong fighters use the tunnel network at Cu Chi to strike American bases and Saigon, then vanish back into it. The first units reach the district in 1968, and the men spend their first day and night at base camp before they go in. Below ground the soldiers carry little more than a flashlight, a knife and a pistol. The tunnels vary in size and length and are rigged with tripwires, grenades, mines, punji sticks, snakes and snipers. Vic Hollowborn arrives with his men to hunt the Viet Cong through the tunnels.
Cast
- Erik Eidemas Private Carl Johnson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 1968 Tunnel Rats (2008)
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- Director Uwe Boll made 1968 Tunnel Rats without a finished script; in a documentary about the shoot he revealed the actors improvised all of their dialogue instead of following written lines.
- 1968 Tunnel Rats cost roughly $8 million to make but earned less than $36,000 at the box office, an enormous gap between budget and ticket sales for a war film.
- According to a documentary about the making of Tunnel Rats, the film had no script at all: Boll let the actors improvise their lines instead of working from pages.
- 1968 Tunnel Rats was a box-office failure, taking in less than $36,000 in ticket sales even though its budget was $8 million.
