Genre: Action, War
Location: Fi12b
This Collection Contains:
Missing in Action (1984)
Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped ten years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner. Braddock gets the evidence and then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau.
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s, shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Missing in Action 3 (1988)
Colonel James Braddock has a Vietnamese wife who was supposed to leave Vietnam with him when they evacuated. But she loses her papers and wasn’t allowed in the embassy. Braddock went looking for her, and her friend took the bracelet Braddock gave his wife and was in an explosion. When Braddock finds the body with the bracelet, he assumes it’s his wife, so he leaves Vietnam. 12 years later, a Reverend in Vietnam who was visiting the States approaches Braddock telling him that his wife is alive and that he has a son. Braddock doesn’t believe him at first, but when a man at the CIA asks him to meet with him, Braddock realizes it’s true. So he tries to get them out. So he contacts a friend in Thailand to get what he needs. As they are about to leave, the CIA tries to stop him, but Braddock gets away, gets his equipment, and heads to Vietnam. When he arrives, he goes to the orphanage for Amerasian children, where the Reverend works. He takes him to them and is surprised to see them, and his son resents him cause he thinks he abandoned them. They try to leave, but a Vietnamese Colonel takes them; he kills his wife and subjects Braddock to torture. Braddock escapes with his son, whom he says to go to the orphanage. The Colonel goes there and takes the Reverend and the children to prison. Braddock then tries to rescue them.