A much better film could have been made out of just this one cap I mean it’s John wayne on a field phone being driven by a vietnamese colonel in a 60s Citroen. There’s the daughter or whatever she is in the back who captured some NV general and a couple of soldiers.
THEY SHOULD BE ROBBING BANKS!
From Wikipedia’s article on the Green Berets Film:
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film featuring John Wayne, George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton and Aldo Ray, nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore, though the screenplay has little relation to the book.
Thematically, The Green Berets is strongly anti-communist and pro-Saigon. It was produced in 1968, at the height of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the same year as the Tet offensive against the largest cities in South Vietnam. John Wayne, concerned by the anti-war atmosphere in the United States, wanted to make this film to present the pro-military position. He requested and obtained full military co-operation and materiel from President Johnson. To please the Pentagon, who were attempting to prosecute Robin Moore for revealing classified information, Wayne bought Moore out for $35,000 and 5 percent of undefined profits of the film.[2]
that sounds about right. mostly it’s just a boring film that’s cardboard-y in characters and doesn’t go anywhere. bleh.
I’m about halfway through this propaganda/western movie. ‘Murrica can do no wrong in vietnam but all odds are against them, even journalists.
The Green Berets is mostly boring so far. Insulting too I’m sure
Co-Directed by this dude, whoever he is
Oh God the Green Berets movie has its own themesong.
