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The Green Berets
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DVD - 29 October, 1997
Warner Home Video
G (General Audience)
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Director: Kellogg, Ray
Cast: David Janssen, Wayne, John
Number of Media: 1
Features: - AC-3
- Closed-captioned
- Color
- Dolby
- DVD-Video
- Letterboxed
- Widescreen
- NTSC
Related Areas: Action, Action / Adventure, Adventure, Colonialism, Color, Combat Films, Confrontational, Culture Clash, English, Feature, Feature Film Action Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Forceful, Members of the Press, Movie, Questionable for Children, Rousing, Sweeping, USA, War |
| DVD Description Anyone who fought in Vietnam can tell you that the war bore little resemblance to this propagandistic action film starring and codirected by John Wayne. But the film itself is not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest; critics roasted its gung-ho politics while ignoring its merits as an exciting (if rather conventional and idealistic) war movie. Some notorious mistakes were made--in the final shot, the sun sets in the east!--and it's an awkward attempt to graft WWII heroics onto the Vietnam experience. But as the Duke's attempt to acknowledge the men who were fighting and dying overseas, it's a rousing film in which Wayne commands a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Viet Cong general. David Janssen plays a journalist who learns to understand Wayne's commitment to battling Communism, and Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad) plays an ill-fated soldier who adopts a Vietnamese orphan. In addition to its widescreen image, the digital video disc includes a promotional featurette and seven different theatrical trailers. --Jeff Shannon |
| Customer Reviews
Eh The Green Berets is a poorly made and poorly thought out piece of Vietnam War propaganda. Nothing wrong with cheering on the troops but either leave the controversial politics for the local watering hole or present a sound, reasonable arguement in a well made movie. The Green Berets is a mass of war movie cliches and stereotypes lifted directly out of second tier Westerns and WW2 movies. The poorly directed actors woodenly struggle with the banal dialogue and prepackaged scenes. This war movie is designed to be a generic crowd pleaser. The kind that make war look fun and honorable in an action adventure way. Thats fine for a popular war but not what a dubious public needs to be spoonfed. The standard war movie elements force Wayne into a corner where he is oblidged to fall back on his macho swaggering, blustery jingoistic tough talk and other forms of oversimplification. That might work for WW2 or cowboys and Indians but in a Vietnam War movie it seems in poor taste. The lack of honest discourse is disrespectful to the troops and insulting to the intelligence of any thoughtful viewer, pro or con.
Ballad of The Green Berets This movie's one of my favorites of John Wayne. I love it! A little propagandist, but excellent! Watch it now!
Outstanding Movie, This a great movie from 1967 with both John Wayne and Star Trek's own George Takei. |
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