Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Name: Go Tell the Spartans
Genre: War
Released: 1978-07-12
Duration: 114 min
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Marc Singer, Joe Unger, David Clennon

We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!

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.

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Released 1978-07-12 · 114 min · War

Directed by Ted Post

Cast

Burt Lancaster as Maj. Asa Barker
Craig Wasson as Cpl. Courcey
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
Clyde Kusatsu as Col. Minh
James Hong as The Old Man
Dennis Howard as Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
Denice Kumagai as Butterfly
Tad Horino as One-eyed man
Jonathan Goldsmith as Sgt. Oleonowski