Aldo Ray, Bruce Cabot, David Janssen
Directed by: Aldo Ray, Bruce Cabot, David Janssen, George Takei, Irene Tsu, Jack Soo, Jim Hutton, John Wayne, Luke Askew, Patrick Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Release Date: June 19, 1968
DVD Release Date: October 30, 1997
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January 22, 2009I'm a huge John Wayne fan but this (IMO) is his worst film. This one plays like a government produced propaganda piece.
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October 7, 2008The rating is purely for the unintentional hilarity this heavy handed effort brings with it. The half star alone is for having Mr. Sulu go ape shit with explosives.
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December 3, 2006Apparently, the average age of soldiers fighting in Vietnam was not 19, it was more like 48 (apart from the indigenous cannon fodder of course), and Vietnam is actually a dead ringer for a wooded area in Wisconsin. This kind of flag-waving revisionism is tasteless at the best of ...( read more)
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February 22, 2007There is such a thing as due process. Out here, due process is a bullet.
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November 20, 2009John Wayne tries to give the WWII treatment to Vietnam. Doesn't work, but it's still John Wayne.
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August 14, 2009Not a bad war film based on the Vietnam war. Starring John Wayne as the leader for a group of soldiers on a mission in Vietnam. Not a bad war film. It has it's moments of action and entertainment. Has a decent story and cast. John Wayne gives us his typical solid performance. If ...( read more)
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August 1, 2009I'm giving it a star for the song "The Ballad of the Green Berets," which I find to be quite catchy. But this is a disgusting pro-Vietnam war film.
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July 13, 2009I was there...Ranger-Airborne!...Unique among Vietnam war films, since the war was still in progress when this film was made. Haters like TV Guide still to this day insult this film (and Wayne's politics) in their listings, but in fact 90% of the soldiers in the ...( read more)
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January 8, 2009THE GREEN BERETS IS A GREAT MOVIE .I SAY THAT BECAUSE GROWING UP ON A ARMY POST MOST OF MY LIFE AND SEEING HOW HANDSOME MY OWN FATHER WAS IN HIS G.I GREEN WAS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD.THANK'S TO MY ARMY STRONG UP BRING I AM A BIG GREEN BERET FAN .JOHN WAYNE WISE AS WELL AS THE REAL S.F.G AT FORT BRAGG.
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August 29, 2007I enjoyed watching this even after the 100th time yes it a little bit of proaganda of the war but hey it is a movie and some of it is real like my husband severed 15yrs in the Navy and my dad 20yrs my uncle was a green berets and he loved this movie. orders are orders.please never forget that a movie is just that a movie if you enjoyed it it was a good one so check this out i think you'll find some old things are still the best
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