Uncommon Valor (DVD)
Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getti ng the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disap pearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years pr ior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he w as fighting in the war and captured as a POW. When word gets back to Rh odes that the men may still be alive and held in prison camps, but the g overnment still has the men listed as missing in action, Rhodes decides to take matters into his own hands. Contacting an old friend, oil baron MacGregor (Robe rt Stack), Rhodes is granted financial backing to form his own incursion force. He assembles a crack team of men, puts them thr ough an intensive period of training. and heads back with them into the Laotian jungles to search for the MIAs.
