Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Directed by

Ted Post

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of U.S. Army advisors and a ragtag South Vietnamese militia are stationed at a remote outpost in 1964. They struggle with impossible orders and the cost of fighting an unclear war.

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What happens

Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post, from a screenplay by Wendell Mayes, and starring Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Marc Singer and Jonathan Goldsmith. The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation. The film was released by Avco Embassy Pictures on June 14, 1978. Despite limited publicity, it received generally positive reviews, and has been noted for its antiwar themes. Critic Stanley Kauffmann considered it "the best [film] so far on the Vietnam War," and David Thomson wrote that it is "a pitiless survey of an insane, inept, and criminal incursion on history." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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