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The Green Berets (1968)

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Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

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2 nominations.

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30 January 2005 | KA2FMZ
My husband was there!!
He was one of the original team that captured the general. He climbed up on the balcony and let the rope down...Does that validate that part of the movie enough....He also said the part of the little boy never existed....He watched with tears in his eyes because some of his team did not return from that mission alive....Be kinda careful when you criticize things. These guys did not ask to be sent over there...They were sent over there....He did not appreciate getting yelled child killer when he returned either. They were basically good soldiers doing all they could to stay alive....He had may years of Viet Nam syndrome after returning to civilian life....Never got anything from the government nor expected anything....He did his duty and returned.....

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Trivia

The entire films location production was not only nowhere near Vietnam, nor Southeast Asia, it was not even out of the United States. In fact it was not even out of the southern US.

Quotes

Hugh Parkinson: Perhaps you could answer a question all of us here are asking?
Sergeant Muldoon: We'll try.
Hugh Parkinson: Why is the United States waging this ruthless war in Vietnam?
Sergeant Muldoon: Foreign policy decisions are not made by the military. A soldier goes where he is told to go, and fight whom is told...

Goofs

[1:50] After the platoon has assembled in the drop-zone to bury their parachutes and helmets, two people in civilian clothing are seen screen-left lingering by the tree-line and duck in just after Kirby gives the order to move out.

Alternate Versions

141 minute version minus several scenes is what was shown on The Military Channel's "An Officer and a Movie".

Soundtracks

The River Seine
(La Seine)
(uncredited)
Music by Guy Lafarge
French lyrics by Guy Lafarge and Flavien Monod
English lyrics by Geoffrey Parsons
Sung by Liselotte Malkowsky

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Plot Summary

Synopsis (WARNING: Spoilers)

Genres

Drama | War

Details

Release Date:

27 July 1968

Language

English, Vietnamese, German, Danish

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Ft. McClellen, Alabama, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$7,000,000 (estimated)

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