P-51 Dragon Fighter
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| Directed by | Mark Atkins |
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| Written by | Mark Atkins |
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| Music by | Navid Hejazi |
| Cinematography | Mark Atkins |
| Edited by | Tim Tuchrello |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
P-51 Dragon Fighter is a 2014 science fiction fantasy action film written and directed by Mark Atkins.
Plot
The year is 1942. The place is somewhere in North Africa. The problem: the Nazis found a dragon's egg some time before World War II began, hatched it, and set about breeding more. These dragons reproduce parthenogenically, meaning that one dragon can reproduce herself many times, as can each of her "daughters."
The dragons themselves are controlled by vrill, Aryan witch women who are psychically connected to the dragons and can command them. Dr. Heinrich Gudrun, a Nazi cryptozoologist in charge of the dragon breeding program and the vrill, has brought all of the adult dragons to North Africa to assist the Afrika Korps by using the dragons to regain air superiority.
To combat the dragons, an American general is dispatched with orders to put together a squadron made up of the best Allied fighter pilots that are available, led by Lieutenant John Robbins, the only survivor of the first fighter squadron to encounter the dragons. The general has the Ghost Squadron—so named because it does not officially exist—in their P-51 Mustangs lead the dragons into a trap made up of a whole lot of flak guns. The guns get a couple of them. One of the pilots manages to shoot down one of the dragons and mark the location before he runs out of fuel and is himself killed by the dragons. Lt. Robbins and three of his buddies go to the shoot-down site to see what they can learn and are captured by German soldiers, who take them to see Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
The Herr Feldmarschall is very dubious about the dragons. He is not only uncertain that the vrill can keep the dragons under control, but he has serious reservations about the loyalty and ultimate objectives of Dr. Gudrun. Furthermore, he has learned that once in a very long while, the parthenogenic females will lay an egg that hatches out a MALE dragon. These incredibly rare males are so powerful that the legends say they herald the end of the world. Rommel explains this actually means the fall of a civilization, saying that one male dragon had laid waste to the Carthaginian Empire, and another had accelerated the fall of the Roman Empire. He is afraid that a male egg is developing in Dr. Gudrun's incubator complex, hidden under a mountain.
Rommel gives Robbins the location of the incubator and explains how it can be taken out from the air. The key is that the Field Marshal has an inside man who can open an air vent that lead directly into the incubator. All the Allied pilots have to do is put a bomb down the vent, and the incubator and the eggs will be destroyed. Armed with this information, he lets the four pilots go.
The American general recruits a B-17G from an antisubmarine squadron to handle the problem of a down-the-stack shot. Gudrun sends all his remaining dragons up to stop the Flying Fortress. The Ghost Squadron, escorting the Fort, keep the Nazi dragons at bay long enough for it to bomb the incubator and destroy the eggs. It turns out the "inside man" is actually a woman—one of the vrill is a British agent.
With all the dragon eggs destroyed and the adult dragons killed, the war will proceed with conventional weaponry.
Cast
- Scott Martin as Lt. John Robbins
- Stephanie Beran as Rachel McKee
- Ross Brooks as Lt. Drake Holdrin
- Michael Hampton as Plt. Off. Alistair Godfrey
- Riley Litman as 2nd Lt. Robert Foy
- Stephen Blackehart as Flt. Lt. Millet
- Jared Cohn as Lt. Gilman
- Ozman Sirgood as Dr. Heinrich Gudrun (as Osman Soykut)
- Robert Pike Daniel as Gen. Irwin Rommel
- Thom Rachford as General Ward
- Clint Glenn Hummel as Lt. Jake Kranston
- Trey McCurley as Lt. Jeff Campbell
- Madison Boyd as Sue Strickland
- Stephen Suitts as Lt. Arthur Marks
- Anthony Dupray as Lt. Bertrand Galieu
- Johnny Kostrey as Flt. Lt. Karl Kuttelwascher
References
External links
- P-51 Dragon Fighter at the Internet Movie Database
- https://itunes.apple.com/nz/movie/p-51-dragon-fighter/id926427526