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Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Go Tell the Spartans

Plot Synopsis: A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet... (read more)

Rated R
Directed by: Ted Post
Release Date: Sep 01, 1978
On DVD: Aug 30, 2005
All Flixster Ratings: 3.0 Stars (39)
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72 days ago
4.0 Stars
Extremely good Burt Lancaster film about US advisors in Vietnam in 1964. Great dialogue, good script and good performances by Wasson, Kim, Singer and Goldsmith. Highly underrated Vietnam movie.
111 days ago
5.0 Stars
Best film ever made on the Vietnam war with an excellent performance by Burt Lancaster. Go Tell the Spartans is undeservedly obscure and it has been overshadowed by more popular movies which came out around the same time.

The film is very realist in... (read more)
192 days ago
5.0 Stars
This Vietnam movie got buried under its contemporaneous cousins The Deer Hunter and Coming Home at the time of its release. Apocalypse Now following a little while later also didn't help. That was a pity, because in lots of ways it's a great telling... (read more)
261 days ago
1.5 Stars
Not good. If your History teacher says "We're going to watch a really good movie on the beginning of the Vietnam War", DON'T BELIEVE HIM!
343 days ago
5.0 Stars
One of the lesser known classics. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances. Forget "Platoon", see this movie.
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