Occupation government-the Soviet commander, Strelnikov (William Smith), putting a Cuban, Bella (Ron O'Neal), in charge. Meanwhile, after token resistance from the adults, the Commies install an Then they head for the mountains, where they stage guerrilla operations on par with those undertaken in the Soviet-Afghan war. Pickup truck and hightail it to the general store, stocking up on food, weapons, and ammo. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey, and Brad Savage) jump in a The US and the USSR, RED DAWN begins as students in a small town in the Northwest watch in amazement as Russian and Cuban troops parachute in and open fire.

After an unconvincing explanation of the origins of a conventional war between Subjects like RED NIGHTMARE (in which a man wakes up one morning to find his small American town taken over by Communists) and COMMUNISM AT OUR DOOR were presented to scare the daylights out of the complacent public. It's as if the clock has turned back to the mid-1950s, when short Yet another infantile right-wing fantasy from writer-director John Milius, this cinematic embodiment of the paranoid delusions of militarists, survivalists, and television evangelists is definitely a film for the Reagan era.