First Blood

“This time he's fighting for his life.”

A Vietnam veteran drifts into a small Pacific Northwest town and is arrested by Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy) on vagrancy. When Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) escapes custody, Teasle mobilizes the state police and National Guard for a manhunt through the forest. Kotcheff traces how panic and pride turn a tired soldier into a hunted animal, until survival itself becomes the only choice left.