Last modified: 2011-12-09 by antónio martins
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Iron Eagle was an 1986 US/Canadian action film, essentially a
knockoff of the same year’s very successful Top Gun, only
with a teenage-wish-fulfillment angle.
Eugene Ipavec, 18 Jun 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 18 Jun 2010
The plot has an American pilot shot down over an unfriendly Middle Eastern
country (unnamed, but based on Libya) and held hostage.
Despairing of a diplomatic solution, the aviator’s son steals
a U.S. fighter jet and flies it on a bombing spree to try and extort his
release. The flag of the unnamed country appears a lot, and is shown once very
clearly in the office of the film’s main heavy (played by
Poirot’s David Suchet): red with a white disc, narrowly bordered in
white and black, containing a second, smaller black disc — shifted
upwards — itself containing an inscribed white star and with a pair of
crossed black-outlined scimitars beneath it. Some of my details might be off
— the star may have been the “fat” kind, and the
scimitars more machete-like (and I don’t remember which one lay on
top).
Eugene Ipavec, 18 Jun 2010
This flag design reminds more of Tunisia, which
indeed borders Lybia.
António Martins, 14 Sep 2011
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