Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) on Netflix
R19851h 40mActionDramaThriller
Colonel Braddock is captured and held in a North Vietnamese camp run by Colonel Yin, who wants him to admit to war crimes. The prisoners grow opium for a French drug runner.
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During the Vietnam War, Colonel James Braddock is taken prisoner and held in a camp in North Vietnam. Colonel Yin, who runs the place, wants a signed admission of war crimes from him, and puts the American prisoners to work growing opium for François, a French drug runner. Yin has the men humiliated and tortured in different ways, among them an unloaded pistol fired at the head of Sergeant Opelka and a fistfight forced on Braddock and Captain David Nester. Word is brought to Braddock that his wife has remarried. Nester has come to believe their country has given up on them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
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- According to Joseph 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 first film, so Cannon switched the titles and release dates, releasing the planned sequel first and the planned first film as a prequel.
- For a torture scene Norris had his head stuck in a sack with a provoked rat: "It was during my young and foolish stage, so when it turned out there was no fake rat, I said, 'Kill a real one'." Hung upside down, he got the rat in his mouth and thought he would catch bubonic plague.
