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Wellman Anthony Santee, a former race car driver, has been hauling stolen exotic cars for profit with his friend Eddie Turner since his mother died. Their latest run across the desert ends in gunfire when a highway patrol officer stops them and two other policemen join the scene; Eddie and the patrolman die in the shooting, and Santee is hit. Charged with the patrolman's death, he recovers in a prison hospital and is sent to a maximum security penitentiary. On the way there he escapes, convinced his escorts mean to kill him, and at a gas station he takes a car and drives off with its owner, Rita Marek, a deputy sheriff. Her partner, Michael Agnos, heads the search for the pair.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Army of One (1993)
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- When the film was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States in the fall of 1994, the distributor Live Entertainment changed the title to Army of One to prevent confusion with The Joshua Tree, the 1987 album by U2. Not until the 2013 Blu-ray from Shout Factory was it released in the US under its original title.
- The garage shoot out takes after John Woo's A Better Tomorrow and The Killer, and when director Vic Armstrong apologized to Woo for copying him the Hong Kong director replied, "Don't worry Vic, I've been stealing your ideas for years!"
- Although not listed as cut by the BBFC, the 1994 UK VHS release was missing a large amount of violence: despite still being given the 18-rating, almost every blood squib, entrance wound, exit wound, moment of excessive gunfire, mutilation and graphic death had been removed or edited.
- According to the December 1993 issue of Impact, "The producers felt that the final showdown in Vic Armstrong's directorial debut didn't live up to the stunts that had preceded it, and asked for a reshoot."
