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

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Kabir Bedi

Sutherland

Kevin Bernhardt

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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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