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Go Tell the Spartans

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Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

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Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: An less-well-known Vietnam War picture with an interesting point of view formed while memories of the war were still fresh. Lancaster plays a tough U.S. military advisor in 1964 assigned to the abandoned French outpost of Muc Wa, where he... An less-well-known Vietnam War picture with an interesting point of view formed while memories of the war were still fresh. Lancaster plays a tough U.S. military advisor in 1964 assigned to the abandoned French outpost of Muc Wa, where he must assemble a platoon out of inexperienced American soldiers and hardened Vietnamese mercenaries. As he the conditions at first hand, his doubts about the U.S. involvement grow. [More]

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard, David Clennon, Evan Kim, John Megna, Hilly Hicks

Director: Ted Post

Director: Ted Post
Screenwriter: Wendell Mayes
Producer: Allan F. Bodoh, Mitchell Cannold
Composer: Dick Halligan

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May 24, 2005

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  • Burt Lancaster delivers one of the finest performances of his career as a hard-boiled major in command of a Vietnam outpost. A classic of wartime confrontation.
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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    Go Tell the Spartans is a competent war film, to be sure, but there's no directorial commitment, no vision.

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    This is a solid and memorable film about American military involvement in Vietnam.

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