Go Tell the Spartans
1978, Film, 114 min, Drama, War, English, United States, MoviePedia score 64
We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.
Directed by Ted Post
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as Maj. Asa Barker
- Craig Wasson as Cpl. Stephen Courcey
- Jonathan Goldsmith as Sgt. Oleonowski
- Marc Singer as Capt. Al Olivetti
- Joe Unger as Lt. Raymond Hamilton
- Dennis Howard as Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
- David Clennon as Lt. Finley Wattsberg
- Evan C. Kim as Sgt. Nguyen 'Cowboy'
- John Megna as Cpl. Ackley
- Hilly Hicks as Signalman Toffee
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