In the original Red Dawn, a John Milius film about a hostile Russian takeover of American soil that came out in 1984, the father figure, played by Harry Dean Stanton, makes a plea to his sons (and his son’s friend) while held in Soviet captivity.
"Boys!," he yells from the inside of a commandeered drive-in movie theater-turned-concentration camp. "Avenge me! Aveeenge meeee!" He is then escorted back to whatever untold torture awaits him, while the boys arm themselves and form the "Wolverines," a guerilla collective that goes about foiling the Soviet interlopers via real-time war instincts and teenage cunning.