Director Ted Kotcheff has passed away.

Kotcheff directed a lot of classic films but perhaps the most influential was 1982’s First Blood.  In today’s scene that I love, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is arrested by Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy).  Teasle may think that he’s keeping his community safe and teaching Rambo a lesson about respecting authority but, needless to say, he’s making a huge mistake.