Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

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

Movie · War · 1h 54m · Rated 6.2/10 on TMDB · Released July 12, 1978

Overview

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.

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

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