Missing in Action (film)

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Missing in Action

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

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.

[edit] Plot

Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) is an U.S. Army officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the war, Braddock, now retired, 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).