Smuggler. Informant. Patriot. Barry Seal has gone from a well-respected TWA pilot to a key figure in one of the greatest scandals in modern U.S. history. What started out as transporting contraband would lead to Barry’s help in building an army and funding a war.
Tom Cruise plays the real-life Barry Seal in Universal Pictures’ American Made, in Philippine cinemas September 13.
(Watch the American Made featurette Who is Barry Seal at http://youtu.be/94Y4cHzeU-U.)
The quintessential American success story, Seal was recruited for surveillance activities on communist activities in Central America, and ultimately to deliver weapons to rebels in that area who were fighting communists. The U.S. war on drugs and the war on communism had two fronts, and Seal knew them equally well.