ONE MAN'S HERO

One Man’s Hero – U.S.A.

Heroes sin patria – Spanish title

El batallon de San Patricio – Mexican title
Rileys letzte Schlacht - German title

Un uomo, un eroe – Italian title

O ultimo, combatente – Portuguese title

A 1998 U.S.A., Spanish, Mexican co-production [Filmax/Hool/MacDonald Productions (Hollywood), Arco Films S.L. (Madrid), Produciones San Patricio (Mexico City)]

Producers: Conrad Hool, Lance Hool, William J. MacDonald

Director: Lance Hool

Story: Milton S. Gelman

Screenplay: Milton S. Gelman

Cinematography: Joao Fernandes [CFI color, Panavision]

Music: Ernest Troost

Running time: 123 minutes

Cast:

Sergeant/Lieutenant/Captain John Riley – Tom Berenger (Thomas Moore)

Cortina – Joaquin de Almeida

Marta – Daniela Romo (Teresa Corona)

Colonel Benton Lacy – Mark Moses

Corporal Keneally – Stuart Graham

Paddy Noona – Gregg Fitzgerald

Brian Athlone – Don Wycherley

Corporal Schultz – Wolf Muser

Seamus McDougherty – Luke Hayden

Daniel Grzbalski – Ilia Volok (Ilia Volokh)

General Winfield Scott – Patrick Bergen

General Zachary Taylor – James Gammon

Dominguez – Carlos Carrasco

Captain Gaine – Stephen Tobolowsky

Seamus Fitzgerald – Dermot Martin

Peter O’Neil – Jason Hool

Eammon Daly – Garrison Hershberger

John Daly – Steve Leone

Colonel Maximo Nexor – Jorge Bosso (Jorge Cuello)

Padre Varga – Luis Lorenzo (Lorenzo Crespo)

James Kelley – Prince Albert of Monaco (Albert Grimaldi)

McFadden – Mark Thomas

Flor – Vanessa Bauche (Alma Chavira)

Juno – Perla de la Rosa

General Ampudia – Rodolfo de Anda

Colonel Harney – Roger Cudney

Brander – James Polak

Lasher – Guy De Saint Cyr

Army recruiter – Brett Hool

Guerillas – Raúl Martínez (Raúl Yañez), Fernando Elizondo

U.S. battalion front man – Alek Carrera

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 on Riley and a couple of 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. Because of this, the Irish deserters end up fighting on the side of the Mexican Army, as the Saint Patrick's Battalion.

Trailer link: http://www.artistdirect.com/video/one-man-s-hero/69167