RED DAWN LOCATIONS:
LAS VEGAS , NM - ["Calumet, Co"]
SAPELLIO, NM - [some wilderness scenes]
STORRIE LAKE ST PARK, NM - [end helicopter attack scene]
ABIQUIU, NM (Ghost Ranch) - [more helicopter scenes]
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TRIVIA
5 parachutests (most all military or ex-military) dressed as Soviet soldiers were blown as much as a mile off course during the initial invasion drop scene. One (Jim Fisher) ended up pleading for his life with the locals when he was stuck in a tree and had to shout, "Please don't shoot me. I am not a Russian soldier!"
A mass murder took place at a San Ysidro,CA McDonalds weeks before, and for this reason, a scene where russians were eating at a McDonalds is striked from the final version.
1st PG-13 film.
The portrait of Ghengis Khan in the classroom at the beginning is the director, John Milius.
I meant the school the parachutes landed in, where the Wolverines lived, wasn't 'that' Colorado -g-