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About
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Theatrical
May 21, 1985
Box Office
$300.4M
Budget
$44.0M
Return
6.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 21, 1998
Theaters
2
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Carolco Pictures, Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Anabasis
Keywords
vietnam veteran
helicopter
submachine gun
prisoner
prisoner of war
liberation of prisoners
liberation
leech
vietnam
vietnam war
chase
machinegun
us army
forest
photography
government
sequel
revenge
torture
soldier
explosion
bow and arrow
exploding body
agent
russian army
electrical torture
denunciation
Quotes
See all →Unstoppable Force Against All Odds
Taglines
No man, no law, no war can stop him.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Underestimating Rambo's capabilities leads to failure
Taglines
They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail, but they made one fatal mistake. They forgot who they were dealing with: Rambo.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Rambo Collection
A series of action films that follows John Rambo, a US Army veteran, who is traumatized by his experience in the Vietnam War, and uses the skills he gained there to fight corrupt police officers, enem...
Cast
Full credits →S
Sylvester Stallone
John J. Rambo
R
Richard Crenna
Col. Samuel Trautman
C
Charles Napier
Marshall Murdock
S
Steven Berkoff
Lt. Col. Podovsky
J
Julia Nickson
Co Bao
M
Martin Kove
Ericson
G
George Cheung
Capt Vinh
A
Andy Wood
Banks
W
William Ghent
Capt. Vinh
V
Vojislav Govedarica
Sgt. Yushin
D
Dana Lee
Gunboat captain
B
Baoan Coleman
Gunboat captain II
C
Christopher Grant
P.O.W. #2
J
John Sterlini
P.O.W. #3
W
William Rothlein
P.O.W. #5
T
Tony Munafo
Prison Guard
M
Mason Cardiff
Russian Soldier
R
Roger Cudney
Chief Radio Operator
J
Jeff Imada
Tay's Soldier
J
John Pankow
POW #6
