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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 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.
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- Drama, War
- Ted Post
- 1978-09-01
Go Tell the Spartans. Roger Ebert January 01, 1978. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
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Simonides. Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Thermopylae was the narrow mountain pass where in 480 BC a small Greek force led by the Spartans held up the mighty Persian army.
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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- Ted Post
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- Burt Lancaster
Summaries. 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. 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 ...
