Screenplay:
James Lee BarrettCinematography:
Winton C. HochComposer:
Miklós RózsaCast:
John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques, Bruce Cabot, Jack Soo, George Takei, Patrick Wayne, Luke Askew, Jason Evers, Richard Pryor (more)Plots(1)
John Wayne went against the tide of public opinion to both direct and star in a war epic that seeks to justify America's involvement in Vietnam. A commander (Wayne) is sent onto the battlefield to lead a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Vietcong general. As events unfold, a pacifist journalist (David Janssen) covering the sorti is gradually persuaded to accept the justness of the war. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
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This is what happens when, to support pro-war propaganda, you use the forests of North America in the fall to represent the impenetrable jungle of Vietnam and when you cast a pudgy, fifty-one-year-old John Wayne in a role which makes even Rambo look like a sniveling coward. And they meant this deadly seriously. But that is what makes this a perfect, although unintentional comedy.
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This is truly a weak war film. It is unnecessarily drawn out without much of a story to tell. The individual characters are pseudo-dramatic and comedic, which is a shame, especially the humor in certain cases, and the color doesn't suit it well either. It's simply just a war film that happens to have John Wayne.
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