Ted Kotcheff
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'First Blood' Director on Original Ending That Gave Stallone's Rambo a Shocking Death
First Blood had a grim ending when director Ted Kotcheff signed onto the 1982 classic. As originally filmed, Sylvester Stallone‘s Rambo commits suicide during a climactic standoff with Colonel Trautman, after the colonel refuses to kill Rambo in cold blood. “The right wing thought [Vietnam veterans] were a bunch of losers.