During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior.
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Director:
Sydney Pollack
Stars:
Burt Lancaster,
Patrick O'Neal,
Jean-Pierre Aumont
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of ... See full summary »
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Stars:
Burt Lancaster,
Richard Widmark,
Roscoe Lee Browne
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Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier,... See full summary »
A Mexican-American sheriff must resort to violence against a powerful rancher in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
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A tough sergeant and his sidekick roll into a demoralized firebase and proceed to rebuild morale and fortifications in advance of the climactic battle with the VietCong.
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.
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A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war. Written by
Keith Loh <[email protected]>
Some of this film's foreign language title literal English translations are: France: "Le Merdier" ("The Mess"); Spain: "La Patrulla" ("The Patrol"); Austria: "Das tödliche Kommando" ("The Deadly Commando"); Denmark: "Til sidste mand" ("To the last man"); Sweden: "Siste utposten" ("Last Outpost"); West Germany: "Die letzte Schlacht" ("The Last Battle); Italy: "Vittorie perdute" ("Wins Lost"); Greece: "Vromikes nikes" ("Dirty Victories"); Finland: "Viimeinen viesti" ("The Last Post"); Portugal: "Avisem os espartanos" ("Notify the Spartans") and Hungary: "Vidd hírül a Spártaiaknak!" ("Bring news about it to the Spartans"). See more »
Goofs
None of the automatic or semi-automatic weapons eject any empty cartridge cases while being fired. See more »
Quotes
[last lines]
Cpl. Courcey:
[to a wounded, one-eyed Viet Cong scout]
I'm going home, Charlie... if they'll let me.
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This movie is one of the overlooked war movies. It tells a powerful story about how history repeats itself. The Americans find themselves falling into the same trap that the French fell into just a few years earlier. Their fears would be well founded in just a few brief years.
Burt Lancaster was great as the beleagured American Major. His fate at the end of the movie is one that every combat soldier must surely dread.
Taut direction, combined with a strong supporting cast and a literate plot makes this a must see for fans of the war movie genre. I would put it right up there with Platoon and Saving Private Ryan. A strong 3 1\2 stars.
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This movie is one of the overlooked war movies. It tells a powerful story about how history repeats itself. The Americans find themselves falling into the same trap that the French fell into just a few years earlier. Their fears would be well founded in just a few brief years.
Burt Lancaster was great as the beleagured American Major. His fate at the end of the movie is one that every combat soldier must surely dread.
Taut direction, combined with a strong supporting cast and a literate plot makes this a must see for fans of the war movie genre. I would put it right up there with Platoon and Saving Private Ryan. A strong 3 1\2 stars.