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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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