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The reason for this is Hanoi wanted money and concessions from the US. It was a major sticking point at the time with many (this author included) believing, and still do, that troops were left in Vietnam and Laos after the war with Hanoi not turning over all of their POWs. No doubt one of the reasons it was such a hit.
#Uncommon valor movie#
The movie is an early take on the “going back for our abandoned boys” niche genre from the time. They travel across the border led by an ex-opium smuggler and then the action starts. They train together on a compounded made up to be an exact copy of the POW camp in Laos after getting some top-secret satellite photos from one of the Colonel’s old friends still in the service at the Pentagon.Īfter they perfect their plan, they fly to Thailand to stage their planned assault of the Laotian compound to free the US prisoners of war. UNCOMMON VALOR, (l-r): Randall Cobb, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Gene Hackman, Tim Thomerson, Harold Sylvester, 1983, (c)Paramount Fred Ward, Tex Cobb, Reb Brown, Tim Thomerson and Patrick Swayze as a younger Marine whose father was shot down in the war and listed MIA. The group is a great cast, including some 1980s action movie greats. to do something, the Colonel decides to take matters into his own hands.īacked by the rich father of the man Hackman’s son went back to save, played by Robert Stack, the Colonel goes around recruiting the living vets from his son’s army unit and a couple of army chopper pilots. Hackman spends years hounding the US State department for info on his POW son and spends most of his time and money in Southeast Asia trying to buy info from someone willing to slip into Laos to bring back proof his son is alive. But, they don’t make it and are overtaken by PAVN troops as the choppers fly away. While his unit is running to a chopper, a fellow soldier gets hit and the son goes back to help carry him to the chopper.
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The film stars Gene Hackman as a retired Marine Colonel who has a son listed as ‘Missing in Action’ towards the end of the war. It was one of the top earners that year, to the surprise of everyone. Uncommon Valor is a 1983 film that is a little bit of a lost classic in this man’s opinion. The popularity of Magnum PIno doubt helped get Uncommon Valor made.
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#Uncommon valor series#
Magnum PI was an early TV series that had main characters that served in the war and were portrayed as normal guys. It was still a very delicate topic at the time, and there were few movies willing to bring it up or portray the veterans in a positive light. 10 years if you count the withdrawal of US ground combat troops. In 1983 the Vietnam War had only been over for 8 years.