Rambo: First Blood Part II
A haunted ex‑Green Beret agrees to infiltrate a covert Vietnamese POW camp for a presidential pardon, but when he discovers survivors and must choose between obeying orders or mounting a rescue, his mission threatens to ignite an international crisis.
“No man, no law, no war can stop him.”
Synopsis
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he wants to return.
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Principal cast & crew: 38
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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 Larry BockShot by Jack CardiffScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Bill Kenney
Box Office
1985 · Box office
💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.8× 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
$300.4M
US & Canada: $150.4M — 50% of worldwide · International: $150.0M (50%)
Opening weekend: $7.1M — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.
Opening week (7-day): $7.1M — 5% of its US & Canada run.
Peak 2,074 theaters
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Also known as
- Rambo 2 – Der Auftragde
- Rambo IIde
- Rambo II - Der Auftragde
- First Blood - Rambo 2en
- Rambo: First Blood IIen
- Rambo: First Blood, Part IIen
- Rambo 2 : La Missionfr
- Rambo II: La Missionfr
- Rambo 2 - La vendettait
- Rambo II - La vendettait
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Cast & Crew
38 unique people credited
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Supporting cast
13Steve Williams
as Lifer
Don Collins
as P.O.W. #1
Christopher Grant
as P.O.W. #2
John Sterlini
as P.O.W. #3
Alain Hocquenghem
as P.O.W. #4
William Rothlein
as P.O.W. #5
Tony Munafo
as Prison Guard
Tom Gehrke
as Russian Pilot
Mason Cardiff
as Russian Soldier
Roger Cudney
as Chief Radio Operator
Jeff Imada
as Tay's Soldier
John Pankow
as POW #6
John Sabol
as Radio Operator
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1Writers
4Producers
1Other crew
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