Counterforce

Feb 5, 1988

1h 38m

★ 5.3

Overview

A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.

Genres

Action

Drama

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Cast

Commisioner

Simón Andreu

Koura

Kabir Bedi

Sutherland

Kevin Bernhardt

Nurse

Joy Blackburn

The Dictator

Robert Forster

Ballard

Isaac Hayes

Kassar

Louis Jourdan

Vince Colby

George Kennedy

Nash

Andrew Stevens

Harris

Jorge Rivero

Roxana

Susana Dosamantes

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