The Children of An Lac (1980)

6.4/10 • 100 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.

Cast

Shirley Jones

Ina Balin

Beulah Quo

Alan Fudge

Ben Piazza

Dr. Wayne R. McKinney

Lee Paul

Capt. Ed Bensman

Kieu Chinh

Vic Silayan

Vic Diaz

Dr. Tran Van Binh

Anita Linda

Maila Gumila

Kim Lan

Dexter Doria

Pepito Rodriguez

Janice de Belen

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