Whilst I intensely dislike the jingoistic and increasingly ridiculous sequels, I have a soft spot for Sly Stallone’s original Rambo movie (before he became an indestructible one-man army).
Here, he is portrayed more as a vulnerable and disturbed Vietnam veteran – not so much fighting to try rewrite the result of the Vietnam war as to just survive vs an antagonistic sheriff played by Brian Dennehy and his deputies in the woodlands of British Columbia.
The nifty little Belgian poster for First Blood is for sale here, along with the French grande re-release (which re-titled it as “Rambo I” after the financial success of the sequel.) I also have a small set of French lobby cards for sale too.