The Soldier (also released as Codename: The Soldier) is a 1982 American Cold War action-thriller film written, directed, and produced by James Glickenhaus[4] The film stars Ken Wahl, Alberta Watson, William Prince, Joaquim de Almeida, and Klaus Kinski,[5] that featured a cameo by rising country superstar George Strait.

[7][8] Renegade KGB agents, headed by Ivan, hijack a plutonium shipment inside the United States and use it to plant a nuclear device in the Saudi Arabian Ghawar Oil Field.

His team infiltrates and captures a US nuclear missile silo in Smith Center, Kansas, and obtains independent launch capability.

[9] James Glickenhaus first conceived the film's premise after reading John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy which explained the methods by which plutonium is transported.

[1] Glickenhaus scouted locations in Berlin and Munich, Germany, after receiving an offer of German financing, provided that the project be set partially in that country.

[1] Glickenhaus traveled for four weeks before composing a first draft of The Soldier, based on places he had seen and devoid of sequences that would be expensive or difficult to shoot.