Andrew Stevens,
Craig Wasson,
James Canning,
James Whitmore Jr.,
Michael Lembeck
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Five young Marines are shipped off to Vietnam in 1968. It quickly turns into a nightmare. Disgusted by the pointless combat, the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by...( read more
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One of the first films produced about the American war in Vietnam. I remember it making headlines in 1978, not due to it's merits but to it's shortcomings. Audiences were staying away in droves because it was centered around a very unpopular war that had only recently ended. A...( read more)
"Boys" follows five young men from their intensive boot camp training and through 1968 Vietnam among inept leaders and corruption of South-Vietnamese allies.
The film belongs to the first wave of worthy Vietnam dramas trying to come to terms with America's outcome of the war a...( read more)
When this was first recommended to me I had never heard of it, which is odd because I?ve always been a fan of movies about Vietnam. In many ways this is a forgotten film and I think that might be because The Deer Hunter came out the same year and eclipsed it. Really this suffer...( read more)
Perhaps this will be everything people said Full Metal Jacket would be but wasn't.
Awesome movie. Lee Ermy rules. I found it so much better than Full Metal Jacket. (Although the Boot Camp portion of FMJ was great)
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i saw it whilst quite young ( under aged ), it made quite an mpression . it is a great life as it was war movie. i have seen many of same genre, this remains one of the best.
i am looking for a video or dvd of the film. if anyone knows of a source, plaease let me know.
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