Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

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Category: 13
All Genres: Action, War
Release Year: 1985
Country: USA
Runtime: 95
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Lance Hool
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Chuck Norris is back! A one-man time bomb set to explode!

A prisoner to strong too hold. A soldier too dangerous to let go.

An American hero's story continues,,,

Writing by: Steve Bing - writer
Larry Levinson - writer
Arthur Silver - writer

Produced by: Yoram Globus - producer
Menahem Golan - producer
Christopher Pearce - associate producer

Cast: Chuck Norris - Colonel James Braddock
Soon-Tek Oh - Colonel Yin
Steven Williams - Captain David Nester
Bennett Ohta - Captain Ho
Cosie Costa - Mazilli
Joe Michael Terry - Opelka
John Wesley - Frankie
David Chung - Dou Chou
Professor Toru Tanaka - Lao
John Otrin - Soldier
Christopher Cary - Emerson

Music: Brian May
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Plot Outline: A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan's celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima...
Plot: Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Movie Quotes: Colonel Braddock: You really didn't think I'd leave... without making sure you were dead?

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Yukio Mishima is acknowledged to have been a real person, but his acts have been fictionalized by writers. Other persons and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons and events is unintentional.

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Errors in geography: Col. Yin tells Braddock that if he signs the contract, he will be transported across the border into Thailand. Vietnam does not border Thailand. It's next to Laos, then Thailand.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:

Mazilli's pet rooster was named "Angelo".
Filmed back to back with Missing in Action (1984), this film was supposed to be released first. However when the producers realized the second film was the better of the two, they released it first and named this film a prequel. This explains why screenwriter Steve Bing receives a credit for "characters" in what became the first Missing in Action.