Main specs
Actor(s): James Woods, James Belushi, John Savage, Michael Murphy, Elpidia Carrillo, Tony Plana, Valerie Wildman
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: 18 years and over
Production Year: 1985
Running Time: 1 hour 57 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: With the promise of drink, drugs and easy sex, a veteran war photo-journalist persuades his buddy to take off with him to El Salvador. But all too soon they come face to face with the brutal realities of a country torn apart by bloody conflict.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 10/09/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 21232 CDVD
Barcode: 5050070006827
Composer: Georges Delerue
Languages
Main Language: English
Dubbed Language: Italian
Subtitle Language: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Audio Commentary By Oliver Stone, Deleted And Extended Scenes, Into The Valley Of Death Documentary, Behind The Scenes Photo Gallery
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Mono
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Mono French Italian
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DVD Description
Oliver Stone's first overtly political film, SALVADOR is a passionate protest against the savagery unleashed by fascist thugs in El Salvador during the early 1980s with the complicity of the U.S. government. It stars James Woods as combat photojournalist Richard Boyle, an erratic, cynical character with a taste for all things chemical. Hearing rumors of war, he and Dr. Rock (Jim Belushi), another free spirit, head for El Salvador by car. After viewing a right-wing officer's collection of severed ears and photographing a corpse-strewn garbage dump with ace photographer John Cassady (John Savage), Boyle realizes that the situation is much worse than advertised in the American press. He recognizes familiar faces among the ubiquitous U.S. military brass and CIA personnel from his stint in Vietnam, but they're predictably reluctant to discuss the reasons for their presence, especially with the outrageous Boyle. As the journalist becomes involved with a Salvadoran native named Maria (Elpedia Carrillo) and observes the selfless dedication of his humanitarian worker friend Cathy (Cindy Gibb), compassion and outrage slowly begin to replace his cynicism. When Boyle swears to the dying Cassady that he'll get his crucial photos out of the country, he realizes that he must also try to get Maria out before she too becomes a statistic. Woods gives a brilliantly incendiary seriocomic performance in this wild, lacerating, and bitterly observant film.
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Professional reviews
Review: "...Plenty of speed, grit and grime....But [Stone] has more on his mind than action..." (New York Times, p.C22, 05/03/1986)
"...Stone has gotten a great deal of visual and political material up on the screen, and it's all worth grappling with..." (Variety, 05/03/1986)
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