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First Blood (1982)

★ 7.5 · 6,849 ratings on TMDB

This time he's fighting for his life.

First Blood poster★ 7.5

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.

DirectorTed Kotcheff
CastAlf Humphreys, Bill McKinney, Brian Dennehy, Chris Mulkey, David Caruso, Jack Starrett
GenresAction, Adventure, Thriller, War
The emergence reading

First Blood keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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