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Go Tell the Spartans is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ted Post released in USA on 1 september 1978 with Burt Lancaster

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Go Tell the Spartans
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Released in USA 1 september 1978
Length 1h54
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War
Rating65% 3.2954153.2954153.2954153.2954153.295415

Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post, starring Burt Lancaster, and based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa, about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, a time when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.

The film's title is from Simonides's epitaph to the three hundred soldiers who died fighting Persian invaders at Thermopylae, Greece: "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."

The choice of film's name thus constitutes a deliberate "spoiler" by the film makers, telling anyone familiar with the source of the quote that the film's soldier characters - like the Spartans at Thermopylae - had been sent to their deaths.

Synopsis

Major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) has been given this command: a poorly-manned outpost named Muc Wa in rural South Vietnam somewhere near the rural Da Nang to Phnom Penh (Cambodia) highway that a decade earlier had been the scene of a massacre of French soldiers during the First Indochina War. Barker is a weary infantry veteran in his third war (he served in the Pacific during World War II as well as in the Korean War), who provides veteran supervision to a cadre of advisors attached to a group of South Vietnamese who garrison the deserted village of Muc Wa.

Actors

Burt Lancaster

(Maj. Asa Barker)
Craig Wasson

(Cpl. Courcey)
Marc Singer

(Capt. Alfred Olivetti)
Jonathan Goldsmith

(Sgt. Oleonowski)
Joe Unger

(Lt. Raymond Hamilton)
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