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Rating: 5.7/10 by 159 users

The Green Berets (1968)

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

Directing:
  • John Wayne
  • Ray Kellogg
  • Crayton Smith
  • Joe L. Cramer
Writing:
  • James Lee Barrett
Stars:
Release Date: Thu, Jul 04, 1968

Rating: 5.7/10 by 159 users

Alternative Title:
Zielone Berety - PL

Country:
United States of America
Language:
Dansk
English
Tiếng Việt
Deutsch
Runtime: 02 hour 22 minutes
Budget: $7,000,000
Revenue: $11,000,000

Plot Keyword: vietnam war, green beret
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John Wayne
Colonel Mike Kirby
David Janssen
George Beckworth
Jim Hutton
Sgt. Petersen
Aldo Ray
Sgt. Muldoon
Bruce Cabot
Colonel Morgan
Jack Soo
Colonel Cai
George Takei
Captain Nim
Patrick Wayne
Lt. Jamison
Luke Askew
Sgt. Provo
Edward Faulkner
Capt. MacDaniel
Jason Evers
Capt. Coleman
Mike Henry
Sgt. Kowalski
Craig Jue
Hamchunk
Chuck Roberson
Sgt. Griffin
Eddy Donno
Sgt. Watson
Rudy Robbins
Sgt. Parks
Walter Soo Hoo
Viet Cong Soldier (uncredited)
Paul Genge
Gen. Thomas (uncredited)
Cliff Lyons
Hugh Parkinson (uncredited)
Walker Edmiston
Lt. Moore (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Ernie F. Orsatti
Sgt. Don Ross (uncredited)

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***The only Vietnam War flick shot during the war*** An intrepid colonel (John Wayne) and a team of Green Berets defend a firebase camp in Viet Cong-controlled territory in Vietnam accompanied by a cynical journalist (David Janssen). The colonel and a select group of his men eventually implement a special mission to capture a high-level Viet Cong general. Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques, Jim Hutton, George Takei, Patrick Wayne & others are on hand. Co-directed by John Wayne, "The Green Berets" (1968) is notable as the only Vietnam War flick made during the actual conflict (I’m talking about theatrical releases). The events take place well before the Tet Offensive of 1968 and the story isn’t about your average grunt conscript, e.g. “Platoon” (1986), but rather Special Forces personnel, who are highly trained & disciplined career professionals. The movie is curiously notorious because it’s pro-involvement, but it’s NOT pro-war seeing as how the flick clearly shows the horrors of war. It’s just that it honestly details the noble reasons WHY the USA got involved in the first place. The tone & story mixes the style of 1960’s War-in-the-Pacific movies like “Ambush Bay” (1966) with a dash of “The Dirty Dozen” (1967). “We Were Soldiers” (2002) is similar, but more effective because it lacks the old-fashioned humor and quaintness. “Go Tell the Spartans” (1978) is in the same ballpark. There’s a lot of action (with fake-looking bright red blood), but it takes forever to get to it. Still, the characters are likable and you have to respect a movie that takes its time to establish the setting and protagonists. The film runs 2 hours, 22 minutes and was shot in Fort Benning & Columbus, Georgia; Ft. McClellen, Alabama; and WB Burbank Studios. Actually, Georgia works surprisingly well for the SE Asia sequences. It’s not like Vietnam is all palm trees; they DO have pines and deciduous. GRADE: B-


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