Burt Lancaster
Maj. Asa Barker
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Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post and starring Burt Lancaster. The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa [1] about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.
Sep 1, 1978 · Go Tell the Spartans: Directed by Ted Post. With Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer. During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior.
Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. [146] William Lisle Bowles: Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here. [147] William Golding: Stranger! To Sparta say, her faithful band Here lie in death, remembering her command. [148] Francis Hodgson
The current monument to Leonidas and his Spartans; it includes a plaque with the famous poem, Go Tell the Spartans.
Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Rated R. The first time he hears about Muc Wa, a military outpost left behind by the French in Vietnam, the major makes his thinking clear: He pronounces it so that the second word begins with an 'f', and rhymes with the first.
Go Tell the Spartans. The veteran major (Burt Lancaster) in charge of a U.S. advisory group follows futile orders to their tragic end in 1964.
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Go Tell the Spartans (1978) [1080p] - full movie with English audio and subtitles During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued...
Go Tell the Spartans. 1978 · 1 hr 55 min. R. Drama · War. Major Barker reluctantly leads a detachment of troops to an abandoned French outpost in Vietnam, triggering a bloody confrontation with the Viet Cong. Subtitles: English.
The epitaph of the Spartan soldiers reads "Stranger, go tell the Spartans that here we are buried, obedient to their orders." Daniel Ford wrote the movie's source novel based on his experiences covering Vietnam in 1964 for "The Nation", one of forty was correspondents.
Synopsis. It's July 1964 in the period when American troops were euphemistically termed "military advisers" in Vietnam. 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 ...
