Missing in Action

original title:
Missing in Action
country / year of production:
USA / 1984
original length:
101 min. , color
premiere:
16 November 1984
genre:
action
based on:
director:
Joseph Zito
film script:
James Bruner , John Crowther , Lance Hool
producer:
Yoram Globus , Menahem Golan , Lance Hool
cinematographer:
João Fernandes
editor:
Joel Goodman , Daniel Loewenthal
composer:
Jay Chattaway
cast (role):
Chuck Norris (Colonel James Braddock) , M. Emmet Walsh (Tuck) , Lenore Kasdorf (Ann) , James Hong (General Trau) , Pierrino Mascarino (Jacques) , Chuck Norris , M. Emmet Walsh , Lenore Kasdorf , James Hong , Pierrino Mascarino
more:
plot synopsis:
Ten years after the war in Vietnam the US-government denies the existence of Vietnamese POW-Camps where American Soldiers are still held captive. Colonel Braddock, who escaped from a sich POW camp, returns to Vietnam in an attempt to track down the location of a POW camp and rescue the prisoners to prove that several of the so-called MIAs are still alive.
keywords:
prisoners of war , single fighter , helicopter
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
Tony Williams. „Missing in Action. The Vietnam construction of the movie star“. Linda Dittmar, Gene Michaud (eds.). From Hanoi to Hollywood. The Vietnam war in American Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP. 1990. 129-144.
remarks:
availability:
VHS, DVD