and its crew has gathered. Using a vintage antitank weapon, Buelton manages to immobilize the tank within a mud flat, forcing Billy to consider surrender. However, a motorcycle gang intervenes and attaches a wire rope to the tank, and the assembled crowd works to pull the Sherman out of the trap. Buelton goes as far as to order his posse to fire at the crowd, prompting a large line of Tennessee state troopers to draw their weapons in response, threatening to "turn this into another 'Little Big Horn'". Buelton and his men then race into the mud flat and begin pulling on their end against the crowd. Reaching a stalemate, Hubik takes charge and has a bulldozer brought over to help free the tank. Celebrating his apparent victory, Buelton climbs onto the tank and orders its occupants to surrender, but instead, Zack instructs Billy to rotate the tank's turret, which knocks him off and face down into the mud. Meanwhile, the bulldozer begins pulling the tank free of the mud with the renewed help of the crowd. This time, the posse's efforts to stop them are futile, and the tank is successfully pulled over the state line. Zack, Billy and Sarah climb out of the tank to a hero's welcome by LaDonna and the people and the governor of Tennessee. Cast James Garner as CSM Zack Carey Shirley Jones as LaDonna Carey C. Thomas Howell as William "Billy" Carey Mark Herrier as SSG Jerry Elliott, Soldier Magazine Reporter Sandy Ward as MG V.E. Hubik Jenilee Harrison as Sarah James Cromwell as Deputy Euclid Baker Dorian Harewood as SFC Ed Tippet, Provost Marshal's Office G. D. Spradlin as Sheriff Cyrus Buelton John Hancock as Mess MSG Johnson Guy Boyd as SGT Wimofsky Randy Bass as Governor's Aide Production Tank was filmed at Fort Benning and in the small town of Zebulon, Georgia. The final tank scene at the faux Tennessee state line was filmed in southwest Atlanta, at the southeast intersection of Fulton Industrial Blvd (Georgia Highway 70/154) and Campbellton Rd. (Georgia Highway 166). The titular tank was a 1942 M4 Sherman, made by Ford Motor Company and owned by collector Dave Ropkey who still displays the tank in the Ropkey Armor Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana. The tank previously made an appearance in The Blues Brothers. In his memoirs Garner called the film "just a workaday movie with nothing outstanding about