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The Green Berets (1968)
Director: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The Duke tells it like it was in Vietnam froma hawk's eye view, with the Vietcong spending their time setting fiendish booby-traps, while he and his gallant men defend the peace-loving, victimised peasantry. A war correspondent (Janssen) starts by expressing mild doubts about the situation, but grabs a rifle when he sees how it is. What offends about the film, even more than its flag-waving one-sidedness, is that it is such a ponderously silly, tear-jerking melodrama. Every cliché is given a whirl, even the Vietnamese orphan lurking about the camp as a cute mascot. At the end, when his favourite Yank is killed in action, Wayne leads the kid comfortingly off into the sunset (honest he does) saying 'You're what this is all about'.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Producer: Michael Wayne
Cast: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St Jacques, Jack Soo, Bruce Cabot, Patrick Wayne, Luke Askew full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 141 mins
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