First Blood (1982)

Name: First Blood
Released: 1982
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett

• Movies, Action, Adventure, Thriller, War

• 93 min

7.5

This time he's fighting for his life.

Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Casting: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbott, Chris Mulkey, John McLiam, Alf Humphreys, David Caruso, David L. Crowley, Don MacKay, Charles A. Tamburro, David Petersen, Craig Huston, Patrick Stack, Stephen E. Miller, Raimund Stamm, Robert Metcalfe, Stephen Dimopoulos, Bruce Greenwood, Earl Klein, Danny Wozna, Peter Lonstrup, Mike Winlaw, Donald Adams, David Menzies, Frank Richter, Grahman L. Galativk, Ian Hutchinson, Amy Alexander, Gary Hetherington, Alex Kliner, R.G. Miller, Bruce Paul Barbour, Stephen Chang, Suzee Pai, Robert Prowse, Jack Rigg, Helene Udy
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1982-10-22
Status: Released

Tags: prison, guerrilla warfare, dying and death, vietnam war, vietnam veteran, hero, vietnam, police brutality, sheriff, escape, police, gun, submachine gun, falsely accused, anti hero, destroy, self-defense, firearm, prosecution, attempt to escape, police operation, matter of life and death, tramp, national guard, woods, rural area, survivalist, special forces

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.