Go Tell the Spartans
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Joe Unger, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer Director: Ted Post Brand: Warner Brothers Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr. Producer: Allan F. Bodoh Producer: Jesse Corallo Producer: Michael Leone Producer: Mitchell Cannold Writer: Daniel Ford Writer: Wendell Mayes DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); Vietnamese (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 114 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Hbo Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of Go Tell the Spartans
Movie Review: A tough but honest look at Vietnam without breast-beating.
Summary: 5 Stars
This excellent but neglected film was recently released on videocassette and is well worth your purchase and viewing. I first saw it in a badly edited format on cable television, and it was still powerful. I was delighted to find that HBO had released the film on videocassette. _Go Tell the Spartans_ tells a short story that chronicles the Vietnam War in microcosm, and though ostensibly set in 1964 reveals a number of the essential, underlying flaws in the U.S. involvement that resulted in our ultimate withdrawal.This is, however, no dreamy, introspective _Apocalypse Now_, nor is the film a weepy, self-pitying confessional like _Platoon_. With a fraction of the production budget of those films, Ted Post did a remarkable job in producing a gritty, honest, fast-paced work.
Burt Lancaster is at his understated best as the dead-ended but still professional Major Asa Barker. Craig Wasson plays the willing but inexperienced draftee, Corporal Coursey. The interplay between these two is at the heart of the film as one generation of soldiers tries its best to hand-off to another, in a war that concededly is going nowhere. The other characters represent the various types that one encounters in other, later Vietnam films (the burned-out suicidal noncom, the doper, the ticket-punching officer, the seductive villager who is a VC), but even these stereotypes are more convincingly and sympathetically played than in later, "evil U.S. imperialist" movies.
While I suspect that the author, Dan Ford, is too hard on himself in his review of the movie, he should get the credit for the concept and characters that resulted in this excellent film. As an interpretive work, this film will stand the test of time.