Faces and scenes from the movie "The Dogs of War"
Top photo: Emory King, Paul Hunt and Edgar "Bally" Gegg at Chateau Caribbean.
Released in 2001, The Dogs of War is a 1980 American war film based upon the 1974 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. Largely filmed in Belize, it was directed by John Irvin and starred Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger. In it a small mercenary unit of soldiers is privately hired to depose the president of a fictional African country so that a British tycoon can gain access to a platinum deposit.
The title is based on a phrase from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar: "Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war." The opening Central American scene was filmed at the Miami Glider Port southwest of Miami, Florida. Later African country scenes were filmed in Belize City, Belize, and the surrounding area. The manually-turned swinging bridge shown during the attack is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
The Lunatic Asylum at the Barracks in Belize City was destroyed when the film, "THE DOGS OF WAR " was produced in Belize.
AKA Crazy House on Newtown Barracks, it was blown up in the making of the film.Here's another photo of the old asylum.
Martin Griffith Sr.: When asked what the wage should be for the extras, a certain government minister told them to pay the the labor price that the country had at the time. Doubt these extras made more than 30.00 a day.
Carl Troy:
I remember the Consular Reports of American births at the Consulate General on Hutson Street a few months later!
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