Summary
The third sequel to Sylvester Stallone's boxing blockbuster combines the ringside sports melodrama of the previous installments with the Cold War patriotism of the star/director's other motion picture series of the 1980s, the Rambo saga. Stallone is back as Rocky Balboa, the heavyweight champion of the world and now good friend of his one-time nemesis, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). Creed is brutally slaughtered in the boxing ring during a lop-sided exhibition match against the superhuman Russian boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), an event that Rocky takes personally. Vowing revenge against Drago in the name of Creed and the United States, Rocky is invited to the Soviet Union for a matchup and hires Creed's former manager (Tony Burton) to get him in shape. While Drago trains using the latest technology, Rocky's ascetic preparations are a low-key affair of carrying logs up hills through knee-deep Russian snow. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Additional Information
| Series | MGM DVD. |
| Subjects |
Boxers (Sports)
-- Pennsylvania
-- Philadelphia
-- Drama.
Boxers (Sports) -- Soviet Union -- Drama. Boxing -- Drama. Soviet Union -- Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | Santa Monica, CA :MGM Home Entertainment,2004 |
| Edition | Widescreen version, full screen version. |
| Other Titles | Rocky four Rocky 4 |
| Contributors |
Stallone, Sylvester,
film director, screenwriter, actor. Winkler, Irwin, film producer. Chartoff, Robert, film producer. Shire, Talia, actor. Young, Burt, actor. Weathers, Carl, actor. Nielsen, Brigitte, actor. Lundgren, Dolph, 1959- actor. DiCola, Vince, composer. United Artists Corporation, production company. MGM Home Entertainment Inc., production company. |
| Participants/Performers |
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Dolph Lundgren. |
| Other Contributors |
Director of photography, Bill Butler ; editors, Don Zimmerman, John W. Wheeler ; music, Vince DiCola. |
| Audience |
Rated PG. |
| Language |
English French Spanish In English with optional soundtracks in French or Spanish and optional subtitles in French or Spanish. Closed-captioned |
| Notes |
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. Special features: scene selections; original theatrical trailer. |
| System Details |
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English) and mono (French and Spanish); Region 1. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 0792836987 0792864271 0792849310 (set) |
| Other | Classic View |