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.

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) 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 its depiction of events. While not picking sides or playing politics, the movie shows the circularity of the war and how it was fought entirely the wrong way.

It is titled after the epitaph following the Battle of Thermopylae. "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here obedient to their laws we lie."

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) 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 of the origins of the American entanglement in Vietnam, with an excellent performance by Burt Lancaster.

Perhaps it will yet get an accidental Indian Summer of recognition on the back of 300 and Meet the Spartans!

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!

One of the lesser known classics. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances. Forget "Platoon", see this movie.