Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Go Tell the Spartans (1978) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ted Post

Written By:
Daniel Ford
Wendell Mayes

Actors:
Burt Lancaster ..... Maj. Asa Barker
Craig Wasson ..... Cpl. Courcey
Jonathan Goldsmith ..... Sgt. Oleonowski
Marc Singer ..... Capt. Alfred Olivetti
Joe Unger ..... Lt. Hamilton
Dennis Howard ..... Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
David Clennon ..... Lt. Finley Wattsberg
Evan C. Kim ..... Cowboy (as Evan Kim)
John Megna ..... Cpl. Ackley
Hilly Hicks ..... Signalman Toffer
Dolph Sweet ..... Gen. Harnitz
Clyde Kusatsu ..... Col. Minh
James Hong ..... The Old Man
Denice Kumagai ..... Butterfly
Tad Horino ..... One-eyed man

Synopsis:

Go Tell the Spartans is set in Vietnam during that period in which American troops were euphemistically termed 'advisors'. Reluctantly dispensing much of that advice is veteran American major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster). Though he knows what works and what doesn't on the battlefield, Barker is obliged to carry out the go-nowhere policies of the American military brass. His current objective is a woebegone, barely crucial outpost, which he must defend with a handful of green soldiers and end-of-tether Vietnamese militiamen. True to his predictions, the outpost is overwhelmed by the Vietcong, who have something to fight about and are ruthless in their tactics. Before the relief troops can arrive, virtually everyone is senselessly killed, including Barker. The only survivor is Corporal Stephen Courcey (Craig Wasson), a willing draftee whose initial idealism dies along with his comrades. Wendell Mayes adapted Go Tell the Spartans from the novel Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford.

A detachment of American and Vietnamese mercenaries occupy an outpost abandoned by the French. When the Vietcong move in on the soldiers, Major Asa Barker arranges for their evacuation. However, there is room only for the American soldiers in the helicopter bringing them out.

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