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Rambo III
Synopsis
The third entry in the ultra-macho Rambo action movie series finds muscle-bound warrior John Rambo (co-writer and star Sylvester Stallone) refusing a request from his former Vietnam superior, Green Beret Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna). Trautman is to lead a mission to aid the mujahedeen rebels fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns his friend down. When the mission goes awry and Trautman is subsequently captured and tortured within a prison fortress, Rambo launches a rescue effort of his own, armed with his trademark bow and exploding arrows. Along the way, he allies himself with the freedom fighters and runs afoul of the villainous Russian commander Zaysen (Marc de Jonge). At the time of its release, Rambo III -- released in the same month in 1988 that Russian troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan -- was the most expensive film ever made, at 63 million dollars.~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Full Credits
  • Director:
    Peter MacDonald,
  • Writer:
    Sylvester Stallone, Sheldon Lettich,
  • Producer:
    Buzz Feitshans, Buzz Feitshans,
  • Cinematographer:
    John Stanier,
  • Editor:
    O. Nicholas Brown, James R. Symons, Edward Warschilka, Andrew London,
  • Executive Producer:
    Andrew G. Vajna, Mario Kassar,
  • Cast:
    Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Spiros Focás, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith,
  • Associate Producer:
    Tony Munafo,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Fred J. Brown,
  • Sound:
    Steve Bartlett,
  • Camera Operator:
    Moshe Levin, Louis H. Lavelly, Timothy E. Wade, John Campbell,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Ronit Ravich-Boss,
  • Boom Operator:
    Earl Sampson, Yossi Yarkoni,
  • Construction Coordinator:
    Larry Verne,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Delia Circelli,
  • Property Master:
    Sam Moore, Mark Rich,
  • Sound Editor:
    Rodger Pardee, Victoria Rose Sampson, Michele Sharp, Solange S. Schwalbe, Linda Folk, Lorane Mitchell,
  • Props:
    Howard Fannon, Panyawadee Sangchai, Carlo Postiglione, Ron Reedy,
  • Armorer:
    Tony Didio Jr., Syd Stembridge,
  • Stunts:
    Danny Epper, Gary McLarty, Mic Rodgers, Steven Lambert, Dave Lowry, Kenny Bates, Dick Ziker, Gary Epper, Bob Orrison, Tom Elliott, Freddie Hice,
  • Assistant Sound Editor:
    Shelley Brown, Michelle Pleis, Christy Richmond,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Gerard Jakubowicz,
  • Screenplay:
    Sheldon Lettich, Sylvester Stallone,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Robert J. Litt, Michael Minkler, Kevin O’Connell,
  • Pilot:
    Roy Matthews, Yoav Peled, Charles Bella, Harry Hauss,
  • Production Design:
    Bill Kenney,
  • Stunt Double:
    Mark De Alessandro, Don Charles McGovern,
  • Unit Production Manager:
    Michael Fuller, Charles Murray,
  • Art Direction:
    Alan Cassie, Adrian Gorton, Pier Luigi Basile, Benjamín Fernández,
  • ADR Editor:
    Lauren Palmer, Constance A. Kazmer, Lucy Coldsnow-Smith,
  • Propmaker:
    Frank Leasure,
  • Hairstylist:
    Donna Barrett Gilbert,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Vic Armstrong,
  • Visual Effects Supervisor:
    William Mesa,
  • Grip:
    Moshe Bukman, Michael T. Travers,
  • Casting:
    Joy Todd,
  • Music Editor:
    Michael Dittrick, Kenneth Hall,
  • Foley Artist:
    Margie O'Malley, Ross Taylor, Evelyn Dutton,
  • Security:
    Mike De Luca,
  • Clapper Loader:
    Bob Bridges,
  • Set Decoration:
    Giorgio Postiglione,
  • Key Grip:
    Itzik Ben-Aroya, Jacob Bukman, Tony Rowland, Bob Rose,
  • Best Boy Electric:
    Yuda Tatarko,
  • Costume Design:
    Richard La Motte,
  • Sound Mixer:
    William B. Kaplan, Eli Yarkoni,
  • Title Designer:
    Wayne Fitzgerald,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Jerry Goldsmith,
  • Assistant Camera:
    Sidney Sidell,
  • Special Effects Makeup Artist:
    Michael Westmore,
  • Storyboard Artist:
    David J. Negrón Jr.,
  • Set Designer:
    Greg Papalia,
  • Still Photographer:
    Dave Friedman, Yoni Hamenachem,
  • Gaffer:
    Danny Ben Menahem,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    John Sweeney,
  • Focus Puller:
    Rami Siman-Tov,
  • Special Effects:
    Thomas L. Fisher,
  • Seamstress:
    Carol Fisher-Mann,
  • Utility Stunts:
    Johnny Hock,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Kamal Haasan, Giannetto De Rossi,
  • Production Manager:
    Terry Collis,
  • Characters:
    David Morrell,

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