Rambo III

original title:
Rambo III
country / year of production:
USA / 1988
original length:
101 min. , color
premiere:
14 July 1988
genre:
action
based on:
director:
Peter McDonald
film script:
Sylvester Stallone , David Morrell
producer:
Buzz Feitshans , Mario Kassar , Andrew J. Vajna
cinematographer:
John Stanier
editor:
Nicholas Brown
composer:
Jerry Goldsmith
cast (role):
Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo) , Richard Crenna (Colonel Samuel Trautman) , Marc De Jonge (Col Zaysen) , Kurtwood Smith (Griggs) , Spiros Focás (Masoud) , Sylvester Stallone , Richard Crenna , Marc De Jonge , Kurtwood Smith , Spiros Focás
more:
plot synopsis:
John Rambo's former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman's request. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen.
keywords:
single fighter , jungle , prisoners of war , prisoner camps
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
Susan Jeffords, Claudia Springer. „Masculinity as excess in Vietnam films: The father/son dynamic of American culture“. In: Genre 21 (1988), 4, 487-522.

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.

Gregory A. Waller. "`Rambo´. Getting to Win this Time". In: Linda Dittmar, Gene Michuad (eds.). From Hanoi to Hollywood. The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick, London, 1990, 113-128.

Adi Wimmer. "`Rambo´. American Adam, Anarchist, and Archetypical Frontier Hero". In: Jeffery Walsh, James Aulich. Vietnam Images. War and Representations. London. 1989. 184-195.
remarks:
At the time of the film`s release in July 1988 Rambo III was the most expensive film ever made, at $63 million - and the Soviet Union had just began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Interesting from today`s perpective with Afghanistan being one of the major battlegrounds of the US-led "war against terrorism" is the insert at the end of the film: "This film is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan".
availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD, CD