A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.... (Full plot summary below)
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A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesGo Tell the Spartans is a competent war film, to be sure, but there's no directorial commitment, no vision. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert[Go Tell the Spartans] contains a lot of statements that are meant to be prophetic in hindsight. It also considers the war in terms of countless earlier movies about earlier wars. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatThis is a solid and memorable film about American military involvement in Vietnam. |
| User ReviewZach EBest film ever made on the Vietnam war with an excellent performance by Burt Lancaster. Go Tell the Spartans is undeservedly obscure and it has been overshadowed by more popular movies which came out around the same time. The film is very realist in its depiction of events. While not picking sides or playing politics, the movie shows the circularity of the war and how it was fought entirely the wrong way. It is titled after the epitaph following the Battle of Thermopylae. "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." |
| User ReviewDonaldThis Vietnam movie got buried under its contemporaneous cousins The Deer Hunter and Coming Home at the time of its release. Apocalypse Now following a little while later also didn't help. That was a pity, because in lots of ways it's a great telling of the origins of the American entanglement in Vietnam, with an excellent performance by Burt Lancaster. Perhaps it will yet get an accidental Indian Summer of recognition on the back of 300 and Meet the Spartans! |
| User ReviewMarc ESeek this one out. My feeling is that it is the best film about the Vietnam War ever made, though I am sure I am in the minority with that opinion. |
| User ReviewGeorge WGreat look back at our thinking at the very first part of the Viet Nam War |
| User ReviewDavid HA grandious Anti-War Movie that is settled while the Vietnam-War it shows realistic the Senseless of this War and is brilliant directed, written and acted with great Battles |
| User ReviewRick SOne of the lesser known classics. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances. Forget "Platoon", see this movie. |
| User ReviewJason CEarly Vietnam War film. Very different from the majority of what would follow. Set in 1964, before the conflict really escalated, it shows how unprepared we were for this type of ground war. Far from perfect put very interesting. |
