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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1983 DVD Release: 05/22/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 44 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Action, Adventure See Also: Uncommon Valor [Widescreen], Uncommon Valor [I Love the 80's Edition]

Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he was fighting in the war and captured as a POW. When word gets back to Rhodes that the men may still be alive and held in prison camps, but the government still has the men listed as missing in action, Rhodes decides to take matters into his own hands. Contacting an old friend, oil baron MacGregor (Robert Stack), Rhodes is granted financial backing to form his own incursion force. He assembles a crack team of men, puts them through an intensive period of training. and heads back with them into the Laotian jungles to search for the MIAs. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Gene Hackman - Col. Rhodes
Robert Stack - MacGregor
Fred Ward - Wilkes
Reb Brown - Blaster
Randall "Tex" Cobb - Sailor

Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Col. Cal Rhodes, a retired U.S. army colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he was fighting in the Vietnam War and captured as a POW in Laos. When word gets back to Rhodes that his son may still be alive, but the government still has him listed as missing in action, Rhodes decides to take matters into his own hands. Contacting an old friend, oil baron MacGregor (Robert Stack), Rhodes is granted financial backing to form his own incursion force. Gathering together his son's marine pals, he puts his ragtag army through an intensive period of training. and they head back into the Laotian jungles to search for his son. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide