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Missing in Action (film)
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| Directed by | Joseph Zito |
| Produced by | Menahem Golan Yoram Globus Lance Hool |
| Written by | Arthur Silver & Larry Levinson & Steve Bing (characters) John Crowther & Lance Hool (story) James Bruner (screenplay) |
| Starring | Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, James Hong |
| Music by | Jay Chattaway |
| Cinematography | João Fernandes |
| Editing by | Joel Goodman Daniel Lowenthal |
| Distributed by | Cannon Films |
| Release date(s) | November 16, 1984 (USA) |
| Running time | 101 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,550,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $22,812,500 (USA) |
| Followed by | Missing in Action 2: The Beginning |
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Missing in Action is a 1984 action film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The film was followed by a prequel, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) and a sequel, Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988). Missing in Action 2 was filmed back to back with Missing in Action, and was actually set to be released first before the producers changed their minds. This explains crediting writers who created an original character for a film in the supposed first entry.
Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner.
Braddock gets the evidence he needs then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck (M. Emmet Walsh), an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau (James Hong).
- Chuck Norris - Col. James Braddock
- M. Emmet Walsh - Tuck
- David Tress - Sen. Porter
- Lenore Kasdorf - Ann
- James Hong - Gen. Trau
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