Go Tell the Spartans Details

1978

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 experiences the conditions at first hand, his doubts about the U.S. involvement grow. Read more

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Go Tell the Spartans

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 experiences the conditions at first hand, his doubts about the U.S. involvement grow.

Starring	Burt Lancaster, Burt Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard, David Clennon, Evan C. Kim, John Megna, Hilly Hicks, Dolph Sweet, Clyde Kusatsu, James Hong, Denice Kumagai, Tad Horino, Phong Diep, Ralph Branne
Director	Ted Post
Studio	OPTIMUM
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 54 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 01 Sep 2008 Production year: 1978
Format	DVD

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• Moving from the home front - and tentative or oblique treatments of Vietnam - towards confrontation with the action,... read more on Time Out

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  • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  Found it engrossing when it was first released, but very outdated now.

  • • gsskimsing from Edinburgh
    • Posted 05 Jun 2009 16:59

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  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 ...