One Man's Hero

One Man's Hero
Poster of the DVD
Directed by	Lance Hool
Produced by	Arturo Brito Jaime Comas Gil Julio Fernández Kristine Harlan Conrad Hool Lance Hool Joseph Brad Kluge William J. MacDonald Paul L. Newman
Written by	Milton S. Gelman
Starring	Tom Berenger
Music by	Ernest Troost
Cinematography	João Fernandes
Editing by	Mark Conte
Distributed by	Orion Classics (US) Arco Films S.L. (Mexico)
Release date(s)	September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

One Man's Hero is a 1999 film starring Tom Berenger and directed by Lance Hool. The film has the distinction of being the last one released by Orion Pictures.

The film tells the story of Jon Riley and the Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of Irish Catholic immigrants who desert from the mostly Protestant U.S. Army to the mostly Catholic Mexican side during the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. The story centers around Riley and a couple men in his U.S. Battalion who are whipped for "desertion" when they travel to the Mexican side of the border to attend Mass. They escape to Mexico to hopefully find a ship back to Ireland only to find out that the U.S. and Mexico are now at war and if they are captured they could be hanged.

Cast

• Tom Berenger as Sergeant / Lieutenant / Captain John Riley
• Joaquim de Almeida as Cortina
• Daniela Romo as Marta
• Mark Moses as Colonel Benton Lacy
• Stuart Graham as Corporal Kenneally
• Gregg Fitzgerald as Paddy Noonan
• Don Wycherley as Brian Athlone
• Wolf Muser as Corporal Schultz
• Luke Hayden as Seamus McDougherty
• Ilia Volok as Daniel Grzbalski
• Patrick Bergin as General Winfield Scott
• James Gammon as General Zachary Taylor
• Carlos Carrasco as Dominguez
• Stephen Tobolowsky as Captain Gaine

Prince Albert of Monaco, using the stage name of Kelly (his mother's maiden name), had a cameo appearance in the movie. He has a connection to Mexico through his grandfather, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, whose mother, Susana María de la Torre y Mier was a member of the Mexican nobility.

Awards

Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2000 ALMA Award[1]	Outstanding Director of a Feature Film	Lance Hool	Nominated
1999 Sundance Film Festival[2]	Exposé Award	One Man's Hero
	Human Rights Award
	Peace Award

See also

• Saint Patrick's Battalion

References

1. ^ Alma Awards http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/ALMA_Awards/2000
2. ^ PFS Awards http://web.archive.org/web/20091028135432/http://www.geocities.com/~polfilms/previous.html

External links

• One Man's Hero at the Internet Movie Database