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Go Tell the Spartans

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on BBC Two England

Continuing the Hollywood Vietnam season of films is this war drama starring Burt Lancaster
Vietnam, 1964: maverick US military adviser Major Asa Barker has his own method of dealing with army orders and raw recruits, and it's not by the book.
But when military intelligence predicts major Vietcong troop movements, Barker's skill as a soldier is sorely tested.
Director Ted Post (1978)
FILM REVIEWS pages 53-60

Contributors

Director:
Ted Post
Major Asa Barker:
Burt Lancaster
Cpl Stephen Courcey:
Craig Wasson
Sgt Oleonowski:
Jonathan Goldsmith
CaptAI Olivetti:
Marc Singer
Lt Raymond Hamilton:
Joe Unger
Cpl Abraham Lincoln:
Dennis Howard
Lt Finley Wattsberg:
David Clennon
Source: Radio Times

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