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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is a american film of genre War released in USA on 1 march 1985 with Chuck Norris
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
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Add to a movie listMissing in Action 2: The Beginning is a 1985 action/adventure film, and a prequel to Missing in Action, both of which star Chuck Norris. It was directed by Lance Hool and written by Steve Bing, Larry Levinson and Arthur Silver.
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning was not originally intended to be a prequel, it was meant to be the first film in a series. But according to Joe Zito, director of what was to become Missing in Action, it was decided that the sequel was a much better film and would be a more successful opener for the franchise. So Cannon just switched titles and release dates. Thus the movie Cannon had planned as a sequel was released first and the movie that told the first part of the story was released as a prequel. It was followed by another sequel featuring the same character, but not directly connected story-wise, Braddock: Missing in Action III.
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Ten years before freeing American POWs from a brutal General, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named François (Pierre Issot), and tries to get Braddock to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. During his team's time in captivity, they are relentlessly subjected to various forms of humiliating torture, and Braddock being told that his wife has left him and has remarried. One of Braddock's comrades starts to suffer with malaria, and is injected with what they are told to be antibiotics. They later find out that he was in fact injected with a lethal dose of opium instead. Braddock must escape and rescue his fellow prisoners from Yin.Actors
Chuck Norris
(Colonel James Braddock)
Soon-Tek Oh
(Colonel Yin)
Steven Williams
(Captain David Nester)
Sergio Kato
(Stunt Double)
Mischa Hausserman
(Kelly)
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