Go Tell the Spartans
“We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!”
1978•1h 54m•6.2•Released
War
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.
Director
Ted Post
Writer
Wendell Mayes
Budget
$2M
Languages
English, Vietnamese
Studio
Mar Vista Productions
Cast
Burt Lancaster
Maj. Asa Barker
Craig Wasson
Cpl. Courcey
Marc Singer
Capt. Alfred Olivetti
Joe Unger
Lt. Raymond Hamilton
David Clennon
Lt. Finley Wattsberg
Evan C. Kim
Cowboy
John Megna
Cpl. Ackley
Hilly Hicks
Signalman Toffer
Dolph Sweet
Gen. Harnitz
Clyde Kusatsu
Col. Minh
James Hong
The Old Man
Dennis Howard
Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
Denice Kumagai
Butterfly
Tad Horino
One-eyed man
Jonathan Goldsmith
Sgt. Oleonowski
Production
Company
Mar Vista Productions
Company
Spartan Film Partners
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