Go Tell the Spartans

Jul 12, 1978

1h 54m

★ 6.2

We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!

Overview

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.

Genres

War

Production Companies

Mar Vista Productions

Spartan Film Partners

Go Tell the Spartans Trailers

Cast

Maj. Asa Barker

Burt Lancaster

Cpl. Courcey

Craig Wasson

Capt. Alfred Olivetti

Marc Singer

Lt. Raymond Hamilton

Joe Unger

Lt. Finley Wattsberg

David Clennon

Cowboy

Evan C. Kim

Cpl. Ackley

John Megna

Signalman Toffer

Hilly Hicks

Gen. Harnitz

Dolph Sweet

Col. Minh

Clyde Kusatsu

The Old Man

James Hong

Cpl. Abraham Lincoln

Dennis Howard

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