Stone's War combat footage


ivoryjones

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Hi!

 

Back in the '80s, a month or so after I saw "Stone's War" for the first time, I saw a movie on TV that had images in common with that episode! The common footage was the combat scenes in Nicaragua (not the ones in which Ira Stone and O'Hara appeared, of course).

I was never able to find the name of that movie, until now!!!

 

Please check this around 29 minutes!

 

The name of the movie is "Latino" (1985), here is the imdb link

Robert Beltran, from Freefall, stars it.

 

As far as I know, Miami Vice never credited the footage.

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Pretty cool man!   It never ceases to amaze me that even after more than 30 years we still find out new info about our favorite show!

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What an amazing find, ivoryjones!  

 

IMDB says the movie was filmed in Honduras and Nicaragua.  

 

Too bad I can't see this because it is blocked for American viewers on Youtube.  I don't know anything about YT;  would it be easy for someone to re-post just the combat footage parts?

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Please try this link (already uploaded, but it will be available within the next hour).

 

This one should work for everybody, but is pwd protected.

 

So here it is a very very difficult enigma :cool: :

"in small letters, write the surname of jack gretsky's best friend"

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This first screen capture is from "Stone's War".  A few frames later, the truck is hit by mortar fire.

MVNica.png
 
This second screen capture is from the movie "Latino", right after the mortar fire hits the truck:

Latino_Nica.png

 

Also, the building with "Sandino Vive" written in big letters on the wall can be seen in both the movie and the MV episode.

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Great find! Now we know why we could not identify the locations as they were borrowed scenes from another movie (which is quite unique and happened only once in the series)

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