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Released
1984 · FILM

Missing in Action

A former POW turned Special Forces colonel returns to Vietnam to rescue his fellow missing in action soldiers, risking everything to bring them home before it's too late.

The war's not over until the last man comes home.

Directed by
Runtime
101 min
ActionAdventureDrama

Synopsis

In this fast-paced action and adventure film starring martial arts actor Chuck Norris, American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam, and it falls to one man to bring them home. After a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) embarks on a mission to locate and rescue the remaining MIAs.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Joel GoodmanShot by Joao FernandesScored by Jay ChattawayDesigned by Ladislav Wilheim

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$22.8M

Budget$2.5M
Worldwide gross$22.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Braddock - Missing in Actionde
  • Missing in Actionde
  • Portés disparusfr
  • Rombo di tuonoit

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