Go Tell the Spartans
We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!
1978 · 1h 54m · R
War
Directed by
Ted Post
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Go Tell the Spartans
Overview
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.
Director and cast
- Ted Post Director
- Burt Lancaster as Maj. Asa Barker
- Craig Wasson as Cpl. Courcey
- Jonathan Goldsmith as Sgt. Oleonowski
- Marc Singer as Capt. Alfred Olivetti
- Joe Unger as Lt. Raymond Hamilton
- David Clennon as Lt. Finley Wattsberg
- Evan C. Kim as Cowboy
- John Megna as Cpl. Ackley
- Hilly Hicks as Signalman Toffer
- Dolph Sweet as Gen. Harnitz
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