Trivia: The name of the movie is often referred to as referred to as "Rambo: First Blood", but is really just "First Blood." "Rambo" wasn't used until the second movie was released. One can see "Rambo" while searching online guides and TV guides, but that is there for people to know that it is a Rambo movie. The movie doesn't have it in the title screen, release poster, or media releases.
Trivia: In the introduction to the 1988 Hodder Headline edition of the novel First Blood, author David Morrell says that he got the name Rambo from both a variety of apple, and the writer Rimbaud: "A French author's name and the name of an apple collided, and I recognized the sound of force."
Trivia: After deciding to perform one of the stunts himself, Stallone broke a rib, much to the displeasure of director Ted Kotcheff. The shot however remained in the film. (The last sequence where Rambo falls through the trees.)
Trivia: Brian Dennehy falsely claimed to have served and been wounded in the Vietnam War. He later apologized for the lie.
Trivia: When Rambo escapes the local jail, he slide-kicks and then elbows a sheriff's deputy in the face, leaving him lying on the floor screaming in pain. Sylvester Stallone accidentally broke the stuntman's nose in that take and the stuntman's screaming is real. The producers used the footage in the final film.
Trivia: Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, Gene Hackman and Charles Durning were considered to play the role of Sheriff Teasle.
Trivia: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood and Michael Douglas were considered to play the main role of Rambo.
Trivia: The piece of canvas wore by Rambo as a suit was owned by Stallone and he still has it.
Suggested correction: It would be good to see evidence that Stallone owned the piece of canvas before the film. Another source states (more believably), that it was "found by the crew while filming." The same source also stated that Stallone kept it.
Trivia: Among the choices first considered for Rambo was German-Italian actor Terence Hill (internationally best known for filming numerous action comedies with Bud Spencer), but Hill refused since he deemed the role "too violent."
Trivia: In a deleted scene on the First Blood Dvd, Rambo is sitting by the fire when he begins to experience a flashback to a bar. The bar scene shows Rambo's encounter with a woman, with whom he was romantically involved. The background music playing in the bar, bears an uncanny resemblance to "Sunshine of your love" by Cream. The song has a few minor differences, but the progressive of the song is the same.
