First Blood

original title:
First Blood
other titles:
Rambo: First Blood
country / year of production:
USA / 1982
original length:
94 min. , color
premiere:
31 October 1982
genre:
action
based on:
David Morrell. First Blood. New York: M. Evans, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972. 252 p.
director:
Ted Kotcheff
film script:
David Morrell , Michael Kozoll
producer:
Buzz Feitshans
cinematographer:
Andrew Laszlo
editor:
Joan E. Chapman
composer:
Jerry Goldsmith
cast (role):
Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo) , Richard Crenna (Colonel Samuel Trautman) , Brian Dennehy (Sheriff Will Teasle) , Bill McKinney (Cap. Dave Kern State Police) , Jack Starrett (Deputy Arthur Gault) , Sylvester Stallone , Richard Crenna , Brian Dennehy , Bill McKinney , Jack Starrett
more:
plot synopsis:
John Rambo, a former Vietnam fighter, wants to see a friend from the war. But unfortunately he comes to late – his friend died as a result of the delayed effects of the poison Agent Orange, that had been used in Vietnam. As the police arrests him for vagrancy, Rambo manages to flee into the woods. Being driven more and more into a corner and traumatised by his Vietnam-experiences, Rambo starts a bloody and merciless private-war with the police.
keywords:
single fighter , prisoners of war , veterans , escape
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
Hofmann, Wilhelm (ed.): Filmwelten. Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Film und Gesellschaft. Weiden: Schuch-Verlag 1993. 170 p.

Gaylyn Studlar, David Desser. "Never having to say you´re sorry. Rambo`s rewriting of the Vietnam War". In: Linda Dittmar, Gene Michuad (eds.). From Hanoi to Hollywood. The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick, London, 1990, 101-112.
remarks:
First part of a trilogy. Deals with the experiences of a veteran from vietnam after the war.
availability:
VHS, DVD