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Uncommon Valor
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Joe Gayton (written by)
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16 December 1983 (USA) more
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"C'mon... we're going home." more
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A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese... more | add synopsis
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It's really worth a watch. Really. more (29 total)

Cast

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Gene Hackman ... Col. Cal Rhodes

Robert Stack ... MacGregor

Fred Ward ... Wilkes

Reb Brown ... Blaster
Randall 'Tex' Cobb ... Sailor

Patrick Swayze ... Kevin Scott

Harold Sylvester ... Johnson

Tim Thomerson ... Charts
Alice Lau ... Lai Fun (as Lau Nga Lai)
Kwan Hi Lim ... Jiang
Kelly Junkerman ... Paul MacGregor

Todd Allen ... Frank Rhodes
Gail Strickland ... Helen Rhodes

Jane Kaczmarek ... Mrs. Wilkes
Gloria Stroock ... Mrs. MacGregor
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Last River to Cross (USA) (working title)
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105 min
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Gene Hackman asked his good friend and co-star in Cisco Pike (1972), Kris Kristofferson, a former Airborne Ranger, if he wanted to do a cameo in this film. Kristofferson had to decline because he was on a concert tour. more
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Continuity: When Gene Hackman's character arrives to pick up the weapons and the police officer tells him that the guns will be confiscated, during two shots we see the truck driving off behind him. more
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Col. Cal Rhodes: 'Tis impossible to know the end of this days business before it comes. But it's enough that the day will end, and then the end be known. And if we meet again, then we'll smile. And if not, then this parting was well made.
Col. Cal Rhodes: And if not, then this parting was well made.
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It's really worth a watch. Really., 23 October 2003
Author: Robin Lange from Singapore

This is probably one of the best movies I have watched. Period. I'm not gonna dwell into the plot (a bunch of other guys here already did). So what I will say is that it is indeed as realistic - in terms of the actors who played the veterans called upon to settle some "unfinished business", the fears that viet vets harbor even after all these years, and the realistic nature of the POWs (who I must say performed really well, one not being able to speak English, another can't leave the garden he is forced to tend to). Even to the point of the senator not wanting to see "that old MIA colonel again." From what I have read on the issue over the last 20 years, the film (to me at least) hits it "right on the nail." And who can forget French restaurant owner with his parrot. The directors made it look to seem that he has been around since the French were in Vietnam, and who managed to crave a little business for himself, gun dealing. And the introduction! Awesome! Awesome! (Marines under fire dashing across the field being pursued by NVA as choppers hover overhead; all in slow motion with haunting music). It's a great movie.

None of that nonsense like what was featured in Missing in Action and Rambo II; now those are bad comedies. They are just an example of a good story that's mishandled to turn into complete garbage.

My thanks to all who were involved in the research and making of the film. You've done a great job, Ted, Gene, Reb, and all you others.

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