Go Tell the Spartans

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

Sep 1 1978 R 1h 54m

Drama, War

Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these advisers and their South Vietnamese counterparts defend the village of Muc Wa against multiple attacks by Viet-Cong guerrillas.

Plot

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.

Written by

Daniel Ford, Wendell Mayes

Directed by

Ted Post

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Spartan Productions Inc., Mar Vista Productions

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Trailers

??(1977) ???

Featurettes

Josh Olson on GO TELL THE SPARTANS

Scores

# of Votes

3,291

Average Rating

6.6 out of 10

Metascore

Popularity

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