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Rambo (film series)

Rambo
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Directed by Ted Kotcheff (1)
George P. Cosmatos (2)
Peter MacDonald (3)
Sylvester Stallone (4)
Produced by Buzz Feitshans (1–3)
Mario Kassar (1–3)
Andrew G. Vajna (1–3)
Avi Lerner (4)
Kevin King Templeton (4)
John Thompson (4)
Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone
David Morrell (1)
Michael Kozoll (1)
William Sackheim (1)
Kevin Jarre (2)
James Cameron (2)
Sheldon Lettich (3)
Art Monterastelli(4)
Based on Characters
by David Morrell
Starring Sylvester Stallone
(See below)
Music by Jerry Goldsmith (1–3)
Brian Tyler (4)
Cinematography Andrew Laszlo (1)
Jack Cardiff (2)
John Stanier (3)
Glen MacPherson (4)
Edited by Joan E. Chapman (1)
Larry Bock (2)
Mark Goldblatt (2)
Mark Helfrich (2)
Gib Jaffe (2)
Frank E. Jiminez (2)
O. Nicholas Brown (3)
O. Nicholas Brown (3)
Andrew London (3)
James R. Symons (3)
Edward Warschilka (3)
Sean Albertson (4)
Distributed by Orion Pictures(1)
TriStar Pictures (2–3)
Lionsgate (4)
Release date
1982 – present
Country United States
Language English
Budget $171 million
Box office $727.8 million

Rambo is a film series based on the David Morrell novel First Blood and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand-to-hand combat and guerrilla warfare. The series consists of the films First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), and Rambo (2008).

Upon returning to the United States, Vietnam veteran John Rambo has difficulty adjusting to civilian life and wanders the country as a drifter for almost a decade. In December 1981, Rambo travels to the fictional town of Hope, Washington, in search of a U.S. Army Special Forces buddy named Delmore Barry. Rambo arrives at Delmore's supposed residence and finds Delmore's little daughter and his depressed widow. Delmore's widow tells Rambo that her husband died from cancer the previous summer due to exposure to Agent Orange, and that she must seek out a living as a cleaning lady and on Delmore's Service member's Group Life Insurance. Rambo, attempting some cold comfort, gives Mrs. Barry the photograph of Delmore's unit.

He is left with a mild sense of survivor's guilt as he is now the last man still living of his once-proud unit (known in the Army Special Forces as Operational Detachment Alpha or "A" teams). He then travels to Hope in the attempt to find a diner and maybe a temporary job. The overconfident town sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), does not welcome Rambo, judging the military hero negatively because of his long hair and scruffy look. Rambo disobeys the sheriff's order to stay away from Hope, as he has done nothing wrong to the community and he believes such banishment to be a violation of his freedom of movement, and is promptly charged for vagrancy and subject to harassment from the deputies, who spray him with a hose, beat him, and try to shave his beard while he is held down.


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