The Odd Angry Shot

Mar 1, 1979

1h 32m

★ 6.0

In Vietnam, the name of the game is survival.

Overview

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.

Genres

War

Action

Comedy

Production Companies

New South Wales Film Corp.

Australian Film Commission

Samson Productions Pty. Ltd.

The Odd Angry Shot Trailers

Cast

Harry

Graham Kennedy

Bung

John Hargreaves

Bill

John Jarratt

Rogers

Bryan Brown

Dawson

Graeme Blundell

Medic

Richard Moir

Sergeant Johnson

Peter Drouyn

Scott

Ian Gilmour

The Cook

Graham Rouse

Black Ronnie

Tony Barry

Lieut. Golonka

John Allen

Isaacs

Brandon Burke

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