Rambo: First Blood Part II

Cast View all

	Sylvester Stallone	Rambo
	Richard Crenna	Trautman
	Charles Napier	Murdock
	Steven Berkoff	Podovsky
	Julia Nickson-Soul	Co
	Martin Kove	Ericson
	George Cheung	Tay
	Andy Wood	Banks
	William Ghent	Vinh
	Voyo Goric	Yushin
	Dana Lee	Kinh
	Baoan Coleman	Gunboat Captain
	Steve Williams	Lifer
	Don Collins	P.O.W. #1
	Christopher Grant	P.O.W. #2
	John Sterlini	P.O.W. #3
	Alain Hocquenghem	P.O.W. #4
	William Rothlein	P.O.W. #5
	Tony Munafo	Prison Guard Testa
	Tom Gehrke	Russian Pilot
	Mason Cardiff	Russian Soldier
	Roger Cudney	Chief Radio Operator
	Jeff Imada	Tay's Soldier
	Harry Mok	Vietnamese Soldier
	John Pankow	POW #6

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Director	George P. Cosmatos
Writer	David Morrell, Kevin Jarre, Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron
Producer	Mel Dellar, Buzz Feitshans, Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna
Musician	Jerry Goldsmith
Photography	Jack Cardiff

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Easter Eggs:
After Rocky and its sequels, Sylvester Stallone cast about for another character that would bring him the same kind of box-office hit--and found it in disillusioned Vietnam vet John Rambo in First Blood, a solid little action thriller. So when all else failed, Stallone went back to the same well in hopes of recapturing the same commercial success. Which this film did. But where First Blood was a no-nonsense thriller that pitted Stallone against a worthy (and not necessarily bad) Brian Dennehy, this one is a sadistic chest-thumper in which Rambo gets to go back to Vietnam: ostensibly, he's there to rescue missing POWs, but in fact the movie was a lame excuse for him to refight the Vietnam War--and win. Audiences ate up the cruel Vietcong (and their Russian manipulators) and Stallone's bogus heroics, but it was strictly by-the-numbers action. --Marshall Fine