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Puff, the Magic Dragon: The Green Berets
De Oppresso Liber - To Free the Oppressed - Motto of the Green Berets
Beginning with the thundering snare drums that open the film, viewers of the Warner Brothers Widescreen DVD are in for an action lover's treat as they view Actor/Director John "Duke" Wayne's take on the early stages of...
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Long live The Duke!
Ah, John Wayne ? ?The Duke?. How I miss him!
No, he never actually herded a million head of cattle from Alaska down to Texas by himself whilst ignoring a bullet wound to the stomach. Nor did he really fight and die in three world wars for his country. However, on the silver screen, The...
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"Muldoon, I'm not a Marine. I believe in my comfort!"
Fighting soldiers from the sky. Fearless men who jump and die.
Men who mean just what they say. The brave men of the Green Beret.
-- Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, "The Ballad of the Green Beret."
Since the mid-1950s, a time when the Cold War between the United States and the...
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*Blu-ray Review* The Green Berets
As a wise old nobody probably once said, “War is an all-you-can-eat buffet of hell.” Such a crappy analogy can almost be perceived as true, too — unless John Wayne’s about, of course, in which case the buffet opts to bring out the salad bar and dessert trays as well. And the... Read full review »
"If you're looking for the war...it's this way!"
Maybe John Wayne could have pulled it off.
Maybe he could have made an ode to patriotism and freedom which could have galvanized a badly-divided America, and reaffirmed support for the war effort in Vietnam. Lord knows, if anyone could have done that, it would have been the Duke.
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A review of The Green Berets
The Green Berets, starring John Wayne, is the only movie ever to be made in support of the Vietnam War. It is the story of a group of Army Green Berets (Special Forces Soldiers) fighting in Vietnam. This movie features non-stop war action and superb acting on the part of John Wayne. The movie looks... Read full review »
Only Two Stars....for the Green Berets
If you know the theme of the Green Berets you'll know what the title means.
I'm a former member of the a cadre (training team) for the Green Berets and spent many times working with them while the trainees were undergoing their training. Even that loyalty, and the bond of former...
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Green Berets DVD
One of the first American films specifically about the Vietnam War was also one of the most hawkish offering a pro-intervention perspective at the height of the conflict. Filmed along the conventions of a World War II action drama a gung-ho colonel battles the vicious Viet Cong while protecting innocent civilians befriending an orphaned boy and reforming a liberal newspaperman's misguided political views.
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The Green Berets
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. --Jeff Shannon
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The Green Berets (Widescreen)
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces - and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War: "The Green Berets." John Wayne stars in and co-directs this depiction of America's Vietnam effort, based on Robin Moore's novel. Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request military assistance for the film - and got more than enough firepower to create an impressive spectacle. Its soldiers fit the tried-and-true mold of earlier Wayne war classics like "Back To Bataan" and "Sands Of Iwo Jima." Their heroics are timeless. Subtitles: English, Spanish. Vintage Featurette: "The Moviemakers", Trailers.
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