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16/12/1983 Drama, War, Action 1h 45m
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Seven men with one thing in common...

Overview

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

  1. Ted Kotcheff

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gene Hackman

    Col. Cal Rhodes

  2. Fred Ward

    Wilkes

  3. Robert Stack

    MacGregor

  4. Patrick Swayze

    Kevin Scott

  5. Harold Sylvester

    Johnson

  6. Randall 'Tex' Cobb

    Sailor

  7. Tim Thomerson

    Charts

  8. Lau Nga-Lai

    Lai Fun

  9. Kwan Hi Lim

    Jiang

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Reviews

A review by Lloyd
Written by Lloyd on 2022-02-27
Overall, Uncommon Valor (UV) is a less-flashy atypical Hollywood movie of ex-soldiers being reunited to form a team to rescue Vietnam POWs, using good (but not Oscar quality) humor, and decent near-realistic (but not memorable) special effects to tell a 2-part story of forming a rescue team which then performs their mission.

Decades after UV was produced, one could say that it's just another run-of-the-mill movie about rescuing Vietnam POWs; however, this was one of the earlier movies of this genre so I don't think it can be fairly compared with the rest of this ilk. (E.g. Missing In Actio...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$11,000,000.00

Revenue
$30,503,151.00

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