First Blood is a 1982 American action film directed by Ted Kotcheff and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who stars as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. It also co-stars Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor Sam Trautman and Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle.

Oct 22, 1982 · First Blood: Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney. A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

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Stallone plays a returned Vietnam veteran, a Green Beret skilled in the art of jungle survival and fighting, and after a small-town police force sadistically mishandles him, he declares war on the cops.

4 hours ago · While First Blood might be surprisingly realistic in its depiction of an army veteran’s struggle against a corrupt police force, the later Rambo movies prove this didn’t last long. The Rambo franchise might have one of the strangest, most ironic, and most regrettable trajectories in cinema history.Rewatching the Rambo movies proves that Sylvester Stallone’s eponymous character became ...

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21 hours ago · Made for about $16 million, First Blood (1982) grossed more than $125 million worldwide ($317 million today), gave Stallone his first post-Rocky hit and spawned three sequels — none of which ...

John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him.

First Blood (also known as Rambo or Rambo: First Blood outside the United States), is a 1982 action/thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran, with Hope, Washington Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy...