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Plot Summary for
Rock, The (1996)A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical
weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a former
highly-decorated U. S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution
to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied
compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve
gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical
warfare expert (Stanley Goodspeed) and a former Alcatraz escapee (John Mason), is
assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket
threat before time runs out. |