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The Green Berets: Directed by Ray Kellogg, John Wayne, Mervyn LeRoy. With John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray. Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam.
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film directed by John Wayne and Ray Kellogg, and starring Wayne, David Janssen and Jim Hutton, based on the 1965 novel by Robin Moore. Much of the film was shot in the summer of 1967.
It is offensive not only to those who oppose American policy but even to those who support it. At this moment in our history, locked in the longest and one of the most controversial wars we have ever fought, what we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians.
Green Berets, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) What The Man Said On location at Fort Bragg, NC, Kirby (co-director and star John Wayne), with Muldoon (Aldo Ray), McGee (Raymond St. Jacques) and company, recruit crafty Peterson (Jim Hutton) for their squad headed to Vietnam, in an early scene from The Green Berets, 1968.
Synopsis. At Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army training camp in North Carolina, cynical newspaper reporter George Beckworth (David Janssen) is at a Special Forces briefing about the American military involvement in the war in Vietnam.
A cynical reporter (David Janssen) who is opposed to the Vietnam War is sent to cover the conflict and assigned to tag along with a group of Green Berets. Led by the tough-as-nails Col. Mike...
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The Green Berets. Story centers around the operations of a Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, their colonel, and a reporter who covers the action. 5,326 IMDb 5.6 2 h 21 min 1968. X-Ray G.
