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Released
1983 · FILM

Uncommon Valor

A retired Marine colonel assembles a team of Vietnam veterans on a dangerous mission into Laos to rescue his son, who he believes is still being held as a POW.

“Seven men with one thing in common...”

Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
Written by
Joe Gayton
Runtime
105 min
ActionDramaThriller

Synopsis

A group of Vietnam War veterans reunites to rescue one of their own, who was left behind and captured by the Vietnamese.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Mark MelnickShot by Stephen H BurumScored by James HornerDesigned by James L Schoppe

Box Office

1983 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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

$30.5M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$30.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.1M — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.7M — 15% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 989 theaters

Also known as

  • Die verwegenen Siebende
  • Retour vers l'enferfr
  • Fratelli nella notteit

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