Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Curaçao
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- prison
- guerrilla warfare
- dying and death
- vietnam war
- vietnam veteran
- hero
- vietnam
- police brutality
- sheriff
- escape
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sylvester Stallone
John Rambo
Richard Crenna
Col. Samuel Trautman
Brian Dennehy
Hope Sheriff Will Teasle
Bill McKinney
State Police Capt. Dave Kern
- Jack Starrett — Deputy Sgt. Arthur Galt
- Michael Talbott — Deputy Balford
- Chris Mulkey — Deputy Ward
- John McLiam — Orval the Dog Man
- Alf Humphreys — Deputy Lester
- David Caruso — Deputy Mitch
- David L. Crowley — Deputy Shingleton
- Don MacKay — Preston
- Charles A. Tamburro — Helicopter pilot
- David Petersen — Trooper
- Craig Huston — Radio operator
- Directed
- Ted Kotcheff
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 7,069 ratings
- Studio
- Carolco Pictures, Anabasis, Elcajo Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1982 · You’re hereFirst Blood
Where it starts.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
Rambo III
1988
Rambo
2008
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
