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Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Ted Post
Production: AVCO Embassy Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.8
R
Year:
1978
114 min
220 Views


on your faces?

Yes, sir.

You don't have any on your arms,

do you?

- No, sir.

- All right, lieutenant.

Quartermaster people in Saigon

gotta have this information.

They gotta establish

priorities...

for mosquito net

and an insect repellant.

Yes, sir.

You don't have to salute

all the time, lieutenant.

Not out here in the boonies.

Thank you, sir.

OK, corporal, follow me.

Any action?

Not yet.

- Toffee.

- Yeah, major.

Any traffic from Mung Tau?

Uh, yeah. They're asking

for the flare ships.

I told them they ought to be

up there in a few minutes.

Charlie's on the prod again.

God damn it,

I want to see those flares.

Nighthawk control must have

Mung Tau runnin' out its ears.

They flew forty-four hours

in there last week.

Screw Nighthawk. I want

that f***in' jungle lit up!

- Toffee.

- Yeah?

- Send a signal to Nighthawk.

- There they go, sir.

Forget it, Toffee.

Yeah. OK.

Now they can kick

that little mother's ass.

There's a firefight

out there somewhere.

That's where I want to be.

Well, we have our own duty

to perform, corporal.

Ah, yeah.

You count this time,

I'll expose.

Oh, that's OK. I'll do it.

No. I never ask my men to do

anything I won't do myself.

OK... time.

Five...

Ten...

Fifteen...

Twenty...

Thirty seconds, sir.

OK, count!

I get twenty-three, sir.

Ow. They really zing you,

don't they?

Maybe we'll get

a purple heart. Ha!

I don't think

that's very funny, corporal.

OK, let's get moving.

We got four more stations

to run tests on.

That amapola will kill you.

It's altogether

fitting and proper.

What the f***

are you talking about?

I'm telling you, that amapola

won't do you no good.

It's the last full measure

of sh*t.

You bet it is.

How long you been on the hip?

Four score and seven.

Yeah, well, sweet dreams,

Abraham Lincoln.

Berries from the earth, sir.

That means f*** off.

Hmm...

Welcome to Penang,

General Harnitz.

Captain Olivetti.

Gentlemen, Captain McCain.

Sorry I can't get here

more often, Asa.

Got a lot of ground to cover,

though. A lot of ground.

Captain,

you make your inspection...

while I powwow

with Major Barker.

- Sergeant Oleonowski.

- Sir.

See the captain has access

to anything he wishes to see.

Yes, sir. This way, sir.

Allow your men to wear...

those tiger-striped

frenchified fatigues?

Strictly unauthorized

in this command, aren't they?

Well, sir,

I like to allow the men...

some freedom in the field, sir.

For the sake of esprit,

you know.

Esprit. French word,

I believe, isn't it?

I believe so.

You know what happened

to the French in this country...

they got the sh*t

kicked out of them.

Now, that's not gonna happen

to the U.S. Army, Asa.

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Daniel Ford

Daniel Ford (born 1931 in Arlington, Massachusetts) is an American journalist, novelist, and historian. The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he attended public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, graduating in 1950 from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire (A.B. Political Science 1954), the University of Manchester (Fulbright Scholar, Modern European History 1954–55), and King's College London (M.A. War Studies 2010). Ford served in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg and in Orléans, France. Following an apprenticeship at the Overseas Weekly in Frankfurt, Germany, he became a free-lance writer in Durham, New Hampshire. He received a Stern Fund Magazine Writers' Award (1964) for his dispatches from South Vietnam, published in The Nation; a Verville Fellowship (1989–90) at the National Air and Space Museum to work with Japanese accounts of the air war in Southeast Asia; and an Aviation - Space Writers' Association Award of Excellence (1992) for his history of the Flying Tigers. He is best known for his Flying Tigers research and for the Vietnam novel that became the Burt Lancaster film Go Tell the Spartans. Ford is a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire. He writes for the Wall Street Journal, Michigan War Studies Review, and Air&Space/Smithsonian magazine; maintains the Warbird's Forum, Piper Cub Forum, and Reading Proust websites; and blogs on Daniel Ford's Blog. He soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68 and flew as a sport pilot until he turned 80. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham NH 03824 USA. more…

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