Uncommon Valor

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For the Jedi Mind Tricks song, see Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story.

Uncommon Valor

Directed by	Ted Kotcheff
Produced by	David Brown Michael Tolkin Nick Wechsler
Written by	Michael Tolkin
Starring	Gene Hackman Fred Ward Patrick Swayze Reb Brown Tim Thomerson Robert Stack
Distributed by	Fine Line Features
Release date(s)	16 December 1983 (premiere)
Running time	105 min.
Language	English
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Uncommon Valor (1983) is a war film written by Joe Gayton and directed by Ted Kotcheff. It depicts a group of Vietnam War veterans who re-unite under the leadership of a colonel (Hackman) whose son is still thought to be in Vietnam as a Prisoner of war. With the aid of a rich businessman, whose son is also a POW, the men train and embark on a dangerous trip back to the far east in an attempt to bring back these and other American POWs.