Uncommon Valor music video

This is a music video I made as a tribute to the 1983 movie UNCOMMON VALOR, starring Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, and other great actors. In UNCOMMON VALOR, Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) is desperately trying to find a way to rescue his son Frank, a POW who was captured during the Vietnam War a decade before when he stopped in the midst of retreating from heavy enemy fire to help one of his fallen comrades. With the U.S. government not willing to help him, Colonel Rhodes resorts to looking up and tracking down his son's old army buddies who survived the war and who have been trying to move on in their lives ever since. He assembles and retrains the team of veterans for the task of going back into Vietnam to rescue their fellow countrymen, which they do against incredible odds and a series of misfortunate incidents. They succeed in rescuing several POWs (but also lose some of their own lives in the process), but unfortunately the Colonel's son Frank is not among them -- he had died of illness not long before (the man Frank had originally stopped to help is among the rescued survivors, though). The music comes from the heavy metal band Hammerfall ("Lore of the Arcane [instrumental]" and "Trailblazers" from the CRIMSON THUNDER album). I don't feel that my video does this great movie justice (and was barely able to tell the story of it), especially as there was so much good stuff I was forced to leave out. But I wanted to post it because there's not that much on the web related to this underrated movie.

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• Uncommon
• Valor
• Hammerfall
• Trailblazers
• music
• movie
• Hackman
• tribute
• action
• war
• Vietnam
• prisoners
• heroes
• veterans
• rescue